Hamilton and Ferrari are about to close a contract from 2025

The British driver Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari would be negotiating the signing of the seven-time world champion for the Scuderia starting with the 2025 season, several European media announced this Thursday.

Contacted by AFP, Ferrari neither confirmed nor denied the information: “We do not comment on rumours,” responded the Italian team’s press service. “Mercedes has no comment to make,” the British driver’s current team told AFP.

Last August, Hamilton (39 years old) renewed until the end of 2025 with Mercedes, a team he joined in 2013, but he would have a clause to leave the German team at the end of the 2024 season.

The rumor of Hamilton signing for Ferrari starting in 2025 started from the Italian site Formu1a.uno and was later joined by media outlets from across the continent such as L’Equipe, the BBC and Gazzetta dello Sport, who confirmed that both parties are negotiating an agreement. which could be announced quickly.

The British network Sky Sports went further and assumed Hamilton’s signing for the Scuderia, occupying the position currently occupied by the Spanish Carlos Sainz Jr, and reported that the workers at the Mercedes plant in Brackley (United Kingdom) will be informed this Thursday of the departure of the English champion, before it becomes official.

The Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc has just renewed his contract with Ferrari for “several seasons”, but Sainz only has a contract with the Scuderia until the end of 2024.

Hamilton has the record for victories in Formula 1 with 103 and shares with the German Michael Schumacher the record for world titles (7, one with McLaren and six with Mercedes), but the Briton has not won any race since the end of 2021 and in the In the last two seasons he has been clearly surpassed by Red Bull and the Dutchman Max Verstappen.