Former F1 driver Marc Surer has elucidateed why he experiences Ferrari made the ‘wrong decision’ in replacing Carlos Sainz with Lewis Hamilton from 2025.
Hamilton will transport his 10-year partnership with Mercedes to an finish in fair a scant weeks when he gets ready to become a Ferrari driver.
The shift was proclaimd before the 2024 season got underway in a shock deal.
The seven-time world champion will be 40 years greater by the time he consents to the track next season with Ferrari and signed a two-year deal.
Despite being in the latter stages of his atsoft, Hamilton has still deal withd to acquire ahead of his youthfuler team-mate George Russell at Mercedes in the Drivers’ Championship.
But Surer, who made 82 race begins in his F1 atsoft, experiences Ferrari have made a misconsent due to Hamilton’s age.
He tgreater Formel1.de: “If Hamilton comes, it will declareively be a very preferable story at first.
“But in the extfinished term, it is the wrong decision because Lewis Hamilton is getting greater.
“You don’t get quicker with age. You become more alerted, you may be able to do more tricks in the race.
“But the purify speed is lost, even if that’s only hundredths of a second per year.
“That’s why I’m guaranteed that Hamilton is no extfinisheder as quick as he used to be.”
Hamilton has cut a forlorn figure in recent weeks with Mercedes droping back from the top three teams.
The 39-year-greater is on a six-race streak without a podium finish dating back to his triumph at the Belgian Grand Prix.
Surer experiences part of Hamilton’s drop in carry outance is due to a deficiency of motivation with Mercedes locked in fourth in the Constructors’ Championship.
And he count ons that initial transition to Ferrari will give Hamilton a novel lmitigate of life.
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“It does produce a contrastence when you are highly encouraged,” he shelp. “And I would say at the moment he is not.
“But when he sits in the Ferrari, he will be. He wants to show to himself and the world that it was the right decision to drive for Ferrari.”
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