British tabloid claims that Lewis Hamilton is in talks to make a £40m ($50m) transfer to Ferrari subsequent season.
The seven-time champion has been linked with the Maranello outfit for a while, and whereas he has beforehand admitted that it’s each driver’s dream to put on the colors of the Scuderia, he has at all times insisted that he’ll see out his profession with Mercedes.
The Briton’s contract with the German group is in its ultimate yr, and regardless of optimistic noises from each he and group boss, Toto Wolff there was no signal of the standard ‘announce’.
The same old suspects on this planet of click-bait have been linking Hamilton with Ferrari for a while, while additionally claiming that Charles Leclerc is seeking to go away, probably to Mercedes, nonetheless few have paid any actual consideration to the hypothesis, in any case, based mostly on the present proof for each drivers it will look like a case of leaping from the frying pan straight into the hearth.
Leclerc is slowly studying what the likes of Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel realized earlier than him, and regardless that all of us keep in mind Ferrari’s final golden period, Michael Schumacher spent four-long seasons at Maranello earlier than all of it got here good.
The Mail claims that Ferrari chairman, John Elkann is in shut contact with Hamilton, however there isn’t any clue as to who he would substitute, Leclerc and Carlos Sainz each having one other season on their contracts.
When requested in regards to the Mercedes rumours in Miami, and whether or not he had spoken to Wolff, Leclerc mentioned: “No… Zero… Zero… Actually zero!
The assembled media clearly unconvinced by his reply, he mentioned: “You all smile since you do not imagine me, however I promise… “I am absolutely dedicated to Ferrari and I really like Ferrari. It has at all times been a dream for me to be on this group and my essential precedence is to win a world championship with this group. So it isn’t one thing in my thoughts.”
When requested if preliminary talks had taken place, he replied: “No, not but… not for the second. For now, I’m absolutely targeted on the undertaking I’m in at this time, which is Ferrari and I absolutely belief and am assured for the long run. Then we’ll see, however I’m absolutely assured for the undertaking of Ferrari.”
“The one time I talked with him is once we mentioned the place the gate is in Melbourne to board the aircraft,” mentioned Wolff, when requested about Leclerc.
“Charles is an excellent man,” he added, “and for the long-term future somebody it’s important to have in your radar however not for the brief and medium time period.
“No one doubts Charles’ potential and he is an efficient man. He’s 100 per cent dedicated to Ferrari and we’re 100 per cent dedicated to placing pen to paper with Lewis.”
Little question Stefano Domenicali and the gang would like to see it occur.
