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Jaime Martín
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The new adventure of Lewis Hamilton in the F1his journey in FerrariHe has caused comments of all kinds about how he will go. Everyone makes its predictions regarding whether it will do well or badly with the most laureate team of the great circus, but has not achieved the pilot crown since 2007, with Kimi Raikkonen.
However, no one may have been as radical as Bernie Ecclestonethe former supreme chief of Formula 1. The veteran leader was resounding when asked about Your two seasons contract with those of Maranello. “He will not last that time“He released in The Telegraph.
Motivations for signing
The one who was the great circus’s mandamás gives his reasons for this hypothesis. It begins with how Mercedes’s English arrived, the whole with which he won six of his seven crowns -the other was with McLaren. “Piero Ferrariwhich is the one that has taken him there, he still believes that they have done something right. I hope you have done it. I hope they have not suddenly launched and end up not having done it“, began.
Hamilton, in a test with Ferrari.Ferrari
Be the favorite
Ecclestone estimates that the islands will not be number 1 in the ‘Scuderia’. “I don’t think Lewis has the same attention In Ferrari. First, The team is happy with Charles Leclercyour teammate. Charles speak their language, so they will take care of him. Even if Lewis does it well, he will continue to have Many enemiesbecause he is the newcomer, ”he said.
Not the age
Some of those who do not expect much of the British in the Italian firm are based on the 40 years that Hamilton has already. However, Bernie sees other problems. “I have my theory about it. It is not the age of the pilots, but how long they have been doing the same”, Begins by arguing. And follow: “I have thought about Lewis: ‘He is getting tired. Has lost motivation ‘. If I had never won a world championship, it could be different, because it would then have an incentive to win one, but it has won seven. ”
Distant relationship
Hamilton and Ecclestone’s relationship has changed in recent years. When Lewis debuted in the F1, in 2007, when Bernie still sent, he received constant praise from the supreme chief. So it was for many years, but Stevenage’s was critical of certain statements by the leader. Like when He said: “Blacks are more racist than whites”. The pilot won those words like “An ignorant and rude comment”. Subsequently, the Executive was positioned In favor of Max Verstappen and Red Bull in the controversy Abu Dhabi 2021where Hamilton lost the option of his eighth in the hindering. Since then, Bernie has always been a great defender of the Dutch.
