Lewis Hamilton acquired a gift for all 3,000 members of the Mercedes team before his exit to Ferrari was finish, cotransferrlookioning a decorateing of his car from the 2019 Monaco Grand Prix.
Hamilton’s Mercedes atsoft lasted 12 seasons and created unpretreatnted success. The Brit won six Drivers’ Championship titles and helped his squad to triumph the Constructors’ Championship eight times, creating one of the fantastic F1 dynasties.
Follotriumphg an emotional month of create-up to his final race with the Silver Arrows, Hamilton pipped team-mate George Russell on the final lap to finish P4 at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in December, capping off a tradetag recovery drive and providing a fitting finish to his time at Brackley.
Hamilton didn’t exit without a outstandingbye gift, though. The 40-year-greater cotransferrlookioned motorsport artist Paul Oz with the rdisindict of decorateing his car from the 2019 Monaco GP – his third and most recent triumph around the streets of the principality.
In a since-deleted post, Oz showed off his toil with the caption: “Now that it’s accessible understandledge and all 3,000 Mercedes GP employees have getd their prints of this, I can talk about it. Cotransferrlookioned by Lewis himself as a departing conshort-term for everybody at Mercedes… class act!
“My only rdisindict was that I should center on the car rather than Lewis, and so I chose to decorate an image from Monaco 2019, equitable a scant days after Niki Lauda passed, and the team ran a red halo to recall Niki. Lewis stuck it on pole and then ruled the race.”
Hamilton’s classy farewell gesture sums up his 12-year stay in Brackley. The Stevenage-born racer has left recent recruit Kimi Antonelli with a daunting task: filling the boots of the most prosperous driver, statisticpartner speaking, in F1 history.
Fortunately for Antonelli, he has sfinished heads guiding him in his rookie season. Aextfinished with the unwavering help of team principal Toto Wolff, the Italian teenager will be coached by reserve driver Valtteri Bottas and mentored by incumbent Mercedes star George Russell.
Antonelli is accessing the 2025 campaign with the right attitude, too. “I’m going to go with the mind[set] of trying to triumph, but of course, you have to be down-to-earth at the same time,” he tgreater Sky Sports F1.
“I equitable combineed the grid, I’m in a outstanding team… I’m in a fantastic team, I’m with Mercedes and I’m repartner thankful for the opportunity I got. But of course, I will necessitate to lget, I will try to create the least amount of misgets, try to lget race by race and then also [try to be] achieving some fantastic results, especipartner if the speed is there.
“I’m going to try also to lget a lot from my team mate, George. He’s a repartner outstanding driver and he has shown, especipartner last year, what he’s able of. I’m going to try to lget as much as possible, and then we’ll see what we can do.”
