Lewis Hamilton has been cautioned things ‘may be precarious’ for him at Ferrari.
James Allison, the technical director at Mercedes, thinks that Lewis Hamilton might find it hard to deal with not being the “star” at Ferrari next year.
Hamilton will pass on Mercedes to accomplice Charles Leclerc at Ferrari toward the finish of the time, when he will cut attaches with Mercedes following nine years on their books.
The 38-year-old has said that he will understand a ‘youth dream’ by joining Ferrari however Allison accepts he will step into a climate that he isn’t utilized to.
The Mercedes boss explained on the Beyond the Grid podcast why he thinks Hamilton’s driving for Ferrari “might get tricky.”
Allison stated, “He’ll get a sense of the spirit and passion of that team.” “I think it might get tricky at first.
The Ferrari is the star at Ferrari. At some point or another, I believe every driver who has driven there has had to come to terms with that.”
Both Lewis and Michael [Schumacher] have room for greatness if they actually embrace that and love it in the same way.
I believe Ferrari and the Ferrari brand will always prevail if he does not.”
The insight about Hamilton’s looming move to Ferrari came as a shock to Mercedes when it was formally reported in February.
Group head Toto Wolff conceded that he was just educated about it the earlier day, yet Allison realize that Hamilton deciding to leave was dependably a trustworthy option.
Asked in the event that he was left shocked by the news, he answered: “Not enormously.
I was astonished at how it worked out, the planning of it, yet I knew about the idea of the agreement we’d offered, and the idea of the agreement we’d offered, allowed that to occur.
“So in the event that it, occurred, we ought not be shocked, on the grounds that that was expressly a thing that we were ready to occur, or, in all likelihood we could never have placed it as a choice in the agreement.
I think everyone was a little caught off guard by the precise timing and sequence of when it happened, but the fact that it did happen, I don’t think was unpredictable.
” Six of Hamilton’s seven Drivers’ Championships have come from Mercedes, with the other coming from McLaren in 2008.
When he joins Ferrari, he will be eager to win his eighth title, which would make him the most successful driver in Formula One history, surpassing Michael Schumacher.
