How Hamilton Ferrari Move saved Wolf from having a “difficult conversation”

Lewis Hamilton Formula 1 Padock shocked her step Mercedes To Ferrari For 2025 season. But when the changes in teams have not seen the change in luck, they could have expected, it meant that Mercedes Boss Toto Wolf avoided making a call, which he “dreaded”.

Hamilton won the sprint race in the Chinese Grand Prix, only his second round with Skderia, but since then struggled to make his impression and before the summer break suggested that Ferrari should be seen to change it.

After clarifying that the comments were not ‘how I don’t feel’, Hamilton showed the promise before crashing on Lap 23 in the Dutch Grand Prix weekend.

However, the former boss of Hamilton in Mercedes is reluctant to suggest that the seven -time world champion no longer has “this”.

Mercedes Boss said, “You do not lose your capacity from one day to another.”

“A driver or a player can compensate for the decline of performance in some areas with over -formation in others. Suppose your experience may probably compensate for low speed on the same lap.

“I have seen Alonso, he is always able to compensate. Therefore, I believe that with Lewis, a car, which gives him confidence and response, can still be very good.”

Hamilton’s lack of confidence has become a very familiar scene in recent years, because after struggling F1’s ground influence in Mercedes adapted to the era And now facing more issues after your switch Ferrari,

Wolf said, “He is also feelings with us.” “I think he had bad moments and at the same time you know, where he felt that the strategy went against him.

“You start understanding a person better, how they work, and then you know with him – I know him so well, I know how it goes and sometimes I just need to keep my hand immediately around him or he needs to give half an hour to close the steam and then things become normal.”

Struggle in a new environment

In this regard, Wolf believes that it helped Hamilton that he faced him Initial conflict with the new era of F1 In the atmosphere of Mercedes, which Hamilton felt very familiar.

“When you are in your family, you can shout and shout and everyone is going to know why,” Volf said. “When you are in a new environment, you don’t even know others, but you still want to shout and shout. Therefore, dynamic is just unknown – not that it’s better or worse, it is just unknown and it definitely makes things less easier.”

Despite Hamilton’s struggle since switching from Mercedes to Ferrari, Wolf says he still understands British’s Skuderia’s move.

Wolf said, “All reasons for him going to Ferrari are still valid.” “They needed a change in the environment, and we needed a change in the environment. We were not as competitive as we wanted. Ferrari looked better.

Wolf said, “Every racing driver wants to run in Ferrari. He likes Rang Lal anyway. The deal on the table was very good.”

Wolf said, “These reasons are still valid today. Now, he is going against one of the best drivers who are among the small ones, who have been in the team for a long time, with a car that is completely different than us,” Wolf said, to match the team-partner’s pace in the context of Hamilton’s struggles. Charles Lakeler This season both qualifying and race trim so far.

Due to the current deficiency of Hamilton compared to very few driver, Mercedes offers a glimpse in the decisions where Hamilton was made behind the curtain, Andrea Kimi Antoneley Wait patiently for a seat.

“We were ready to take a risk,” Wolf said. “But you can’t say to one Lewis Hamilton‘We are finishing it’.

“So, he did so. And this is how it was to happen. And this is today we are a trajectory.”

When extended on the call, Wolf will one day have to do Mercedes in relation to Hamilton’s future, Wolf said: “It is very difficult. It would be a landscape that would, for me, for me, from a personal view and as Mercedes, as we would have become dreadful for this conversation.”