Almost a week on, Lewis Hamilton's shock move to Ferrari continues to dominate F1 headlines.
Everyone has an opinion on the switch of the century, and a former F1 team principal and current 2024 driver with links to Hamilton's inner circle spoke out on Wednesday.
Take a wild ride through F1's biggest story on the day Alpine unveils its 2024 car…
Former F1 boss questions Ferrari and Lewis Hamilton's contract
Former F1 team owner Giancarlo Minardi says if Ferrari wanted Carlos Sainz to leave the team, they should have hired a “young talent” instead of a “40-year-old champion” in Lewis Hamilton.
Ferrari announced last Thursday that it had signed a multi-year deal with Hamilton, with Sainz replacing four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel at Maranello in 2021. As things stand, Sainz will earn a seat in 2025. It turned out that I couldn't do it.
Minardi feels Ferrari backed the wrong horse by signing Hamilton, who will be 40 when he arrives at Ferrari next January.
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F1 star reveals advanced knowledge of Lewis Hamilton to Ferrari
Stake F1's Chou Guanyu has revealed how he received insider information that Lewis Hamilton was heading to Ferrari.
Hamilton's move came as a shock to many in the F1 community, but not to fellow F1 fashionista Zhou. He already knew this speculation was true thanks to his mutual contacts with Hamilton.
Friends in high places…
read more: F1 star reveals surprising prior knowledge about Lewis Hamilton to Ferrari
Ex-Felipe Massa man teases Lewis Hamilton's surprise at Ferrari
Rob Smedley, Felipe Massa's race engineer at Ferrari, believes the Tifosi's power will “definitely surprise Lewis Hamilton” in 2025.
Add to that the possibility of surprises in how much the team will “accept” him.
Hamilton has finished on the podium eight times at Monza in his career, five of them on the top step, but achieving it with Ferrari's red team from 2025 is the most he has ever achieved in his career. It would be a great feat.
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Alpine adopts exposed carbon look for 2024 model launch
Alpine became the fourth team to launch a 2024 car on Wednesday, with the new A524 featuring significantly less blue and significantly less pink than its predecessor.
For the past 12 months, the exposed carbon look has been mandatory on the F1 grid, with teams looking to save as much weight as possible by leaving large parts of their cars unpainted.
Alpine were one of the teams to resist this trend in 2023, but they have undoubtedly entered a new extreme ahead of the new season.
If you can't beat them, join them…
read more: Alpine announces new A524 with black-based coloring for 2024 F1
Williams refuses to follow Sauber and AlphaTauri rebrand path
James Bolles has insisted that Williams will not sell the naming rights to the team to the highest bidder after Sauber and AlphaTauri were renamed for 2024.
Sauber and AlphaTauri will compete with changed identities in the new season after reaching a major sponsorship deal over the winter, but the Red Bull junior team's new look is no short of controversial.
Vowles says only a “fool” would be willing to drop Williams' name from the pit lane.
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