“No,” he replied. “We determined as a staff for that and we have been all the time very clear with Lewis, and the great factor with him is he is ready to put himself in your place and understood the place we have been coming from.
“So, in that respect there aren’t any dangerous emotions, there isn’t any betrayal. It was additionally for the great of him to alter. This was the longest run between a driver and a staff. It was 12 years general. And perhaps he wanted to, in a manner, change and reinvent himself.
“Being a driver for Ferrari is super-prestigious. Perhaps for us as a staff additionally it is very important emancipate ourselves and go in a distinct course.”
In Hamilton’s place will come extremely rated Mercedes protégé Kimi Antonelli, with the 18-year-old Italian – who has been racing in F2 this 12 months – making ready to take over as George Russell’s staff mate.
