Toto Wolff has revealed he told 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton to “picture our rear wing” when he makes the move to Ferrari from Mercedes for the 2025 F1 season.

Hamilton shocked the sporting world by deciding to join Ferrari alongside 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc from next year.

The move was an🌃nounced ahead of the season in early February, catchi🎀ng everyone - including his current team boss - by surprise.

It brings an end to Hamilton’s 12-year stint with the team following a remarkable run of success, winning six of his seven world title꧋s wit♊h Mercedes.

Reflecting on Hamilton’s decision to leave, Wolff told that he warned the🉐 seven-time world champion that he’d be seeing a lot of Mercedes' rear wing in 2025.

“I think first I can’t imagine him in red,” he sai💃d. I don’t think it suits him, but I think that picture is going to be interesting.

“And then I t﷽old him, you’ve got to really picture our rear wing 🅰because that’s the perspective you’re going to have.”

Wolf൩f rec🎀ounted the moment Hamilton told him of the decision, during a normal visit to have coffee ahead of the new season.

“I think it was difficult for him to really tell me because he left for the Christmas holiday ♊and was Mercedes forever,” he added.

“Normall🌠y that’s a time where we don’t speak a lot because he’s gone, because otherwise we’re speaking every day. And then he came back and said, can we have a coffee? He came for the coffee, that’s the normal thing we’re doing wh▨en the season kicks off, and he said, ‘I’m leaving to Ferrari’. And I said, ‘really?’

“And not that it shocked me, because we knew that we have a short-term contract, but the timing at the beginning of the season. I said, ‘why at the beginning of the season?’♒ He said he just wanted to have it out and not have it as a burden, emotional burden.

“And then you got to stay pragmatic after five minutes [of] shock and disbelief it was like, ‘okay what are we doing announcement, what are we doing going forward into the season?’ And he said, ‘well the announcement is a tricky thing because I think it’s leaking’, so it didn’t give me lots o📖f options.”