The British F1 driver Lewis Hamilton signs signatures during the presentation event of Ferrari drivers in Piazza Castello in Milan, Italy, on March 6, 2025. For the first time in a dozen year, Hamilton has a new team because he wants to return his F1 -winning ways.
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The Piazza Castello usually houses a little tourists in the low season while the winter thaws in the spring. Earlier this month, the historic heart of Milan looked a bit different when Crimson walked into the streets along the city center Northern Eitaly.
The crowd was not a papal audience or political protest, but rather an inauguration of species for a new national icon.
Lewis Hamilton, the British racing car driver, was dressed in one in Italy Ferrari-Red Racepak.
“I think we have everything we need to fight for the world championship and I also believe that your fans can be our extra equipment,” Hamilton addressed the masses. “I hope we will have a lot of fun together.”
The sevenfold Formula 1 world champion broke almost every record in the worldwide motorsport in his 18-year career of the first crossing the finish line across the finish line on 105 occasions and destroying the round times to become the first (and so far) black driver in Formula 1.
Hamilton achieved most of these minimum inhibitions Driving for Mercedes For 12 seasons, except one outdoors reached: converting seven champion titles into the mythical record set.
Race winner Lewis Hamilton van Groot -Britain and Mercedes GP celebrates winning a 7th F1 World Drivers Championship on stage during the Grand Prix of Turkey on November 15, 2020 in Istanbul.
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The 40-year-old racero driver, well beyond the typical retirement age of the sport, is convinced that he can conquer an eighth Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship with the oldest outfit in sport: Ferrari. Hamilton joined the most successful team in Formula 1 history in January and will make his racing debut Charles Leclerc On Sunday in Melbourne when the Formula 1 season 2025 starts with the Australian Grand Prix.
The Ferrari-Hamilton deal of $ 100 million is not only the answer of both parties to extinguish a thirst of the championship in almost two decades, but also has the solution of the sport for continuous relevance.
The European racing match has attracted the attention of Americans over the past six years, which is largely thanks to Netflix’s “Drive to survive” The 2018 season up to 1.9 billion A year later. Formula 1 became the most popular global annual sports series in 2024 with 750 million fans, according to Nielsen Sports. (More proof of the interest: the US started from having only one Grand Prix in 2018 to now again organized three races).
Carlos Sainz van Spain Riding (55) The Ferrari follows Lando Norris van Groot -Britain in the McLaren during the Sprint prior to the F1 Grand Prix of the United States on Circuit of the Americas on October 19, 2024 in Austin, Texas.
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Hamilton was far ahead of Formula 1’s American Conquest: Sitting in Fashion Week Front Rows In addition to Kardashians, Siering American Magazine Covers and Walking Movie Premiere Red Carpets long before the sport first unfolded during the season Lancing Event 2025 in February.
He will produce “F1”, A Film with Brad Pitt in the lead roleHost it with gala and be the face of Lululemon in 2025. On the right track he will try to participate in the title fight for the first time since 2021.
“This is the most positive feeling I had in a long time,” Hamilton said about the new car while testing the preseason at the end of February. “I always imagined what it would be like to be in the cockpit surrounded by red,” he added earlier that month.
Hamilton is not the first driver trying to fulfill a child’s dream by ending his racing career in the typical Midlife crisis style – in his forty with a brand new Ferrari and a second family. But nobody has reached an eighth title in Rosso Corsa Red, the characteristic shadow of the team somewhere between Strawberry Fanta and fire truck.
Championship candidates Max Verstappen of the Netherlands and Red Bull Racing and Lewis Hamilton from Groot -Britain and Mercedes GP are on the schedule for the F1 World Drivers Championship Trophy on the F1 Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi on December 12, 2021 in the United Arabian Emirates.
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Although Hamilton became the most decorated driver among Mercedes, he was in the middle of the longest profit in his career when he announced the move over the Pitlane a year ago. After winning seven consecutive championships, six with Mercedes, he was ready to claim a never-be-do-before-eighth in 2021. Then a 24-year-old Dutch director accelerated himself in a disputed, last-minute change change on the decreasing laps of the last race of the season. The Red Bull of Max Verstappen first came across the finish line and has not stopped for the past three years to cut for the field for 30 seconds.
Verstappen’s continuous dominance, winning 19 of 22 races in 2023, and securing his fourth consecutive world championship last season, resulted in a hit for the popularity of the sport. The headlines claimed that the produced prodigy “killed” the sport and that the American audience adjusted the sport with a high octane distance while the viewers fell. When Hamilton announced a one -off team of the generation in combination with Verstappen’s separate grip on unprecedented performance in 2024, the timing magazine seemed to be too tighter. Hamilton proved that he was still a winner last season – and claimed his home race, the British Grand Prix.
The union of two institutions larger than the sport itself – the billion dollar man and the full horse – caused a series of transactions from the driver. With only 20 seats, one shift can have wrinkle effects. When the biggest name jumps in the sports teams, a tsunami touches.
The movement has taken out an empty space at Mercedes in the form of the 18-year-old Italian Wunderkind Kimi Antonelli and left the Spanish driver Carlos Sainz, one of the current major drivers of the sport, without a future at Ferrari. Six Rookie drivers will compete in the sport this year, thanks to Hamilton’s move.
The result is what both insiders and fans call the nearest Formula 1 season in recent history.
It is still a strange sight – Lewis Hamilton in Ferrari Red see after so many years of Mercedes Black. While Hamilton starts the Formula 1 season 2025 with Ferrari in the Australian Grand Prix, his fans hope that he can return to greatness.
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The truth of that statement will be put to the test when Hamilton brings his new Ferrari in line for the five red lights on Sunday in the Australian Grand Prix. The crowd, adjacent to the street track, will be Milan Dwerg and more Don than just the color red.
Still, while the lights go out and turn engines, a Carmozijnrode will demand attention.
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