2024-02-04 09:11:00
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“Better not to win with Ferrari” than with your team
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Jacques Villeneuve believes that Lewis Hamilton was right to leave Mercedes F1, especially as the seven-time world champion seems to have lost confidence in his team. And according to the 1997 world champion, this decision will necessarily be positive for the Briton.
“Inside Mercedes there is something wrong. Lewis no longer believes in the engineers, no longer believes in Toto,” Villeneuve told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “While the team, after all the space and freedom it gave him, did not expect such a farewell.”
“It was Mercedes who created the image of Hamilton. They thought he would stay for life, even as an ambassador. The feeling is that Mercedes is missing something and I don’t think they are ‘will recover in two years.’
“So Lewis is right to go to Ferrari, where if he wins it will be fantastic, it will be the best possible, especially at a time in history where the team hasn’t won for so long. It would have “It was different, for example, to go there just after Schumacher.”
“And if he doesn’t win, it will be a question of image anyway. Better not to win with Ferrari than not to win with Mercedes. If we find the Lewis of the great days, he will be formidable, especially because “He has nothing to lose. And to finish in style with Ferrari is the best thing in the world.”
“A great decision” for F1
However, he thinks it could be taxing for Hamilton: “Ferrari is another world in which it is not easy to survive. Now we will see how strong he is psychologically. Ferrari wears out its drivers. Even someone like Alonso was exhausted. The only one who wasn’t was Schumacher.”
Villeneuve doesn’t think this late-career move will be a disappointment like Schumacher’s return in 2010: “No. Michael came back after stopping because he was bored. Lewis is fit and still hungry . He wants a revenge of the 2021 world championship which, from his point of view, was stolen from him.”
The Canadian is very enthusiastic at the idea of seeing Hamilton evolve within the Scuderia: “It’s good news for all of us. It’s unexpected, in fact, and exciting. It gets people talking.”
“You can’t imagine anything better: the greatest team of all time with the most successful driver. For Ferrari, this is an incredible image operation, in a positive sense. And on the part of Hamilton, it’s a great decision.”
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