Lewis Hamilton needs ‘fresh start’ at Ferrari with Bono staying at Mercedes

"When you do a big move you start afresh like Lewis Hamilton😼 is,ꦍ it means you don't go with your old engineer or physiotherapist..."

Lewis Hamilton with engineer Peter Bonnington.
Lewis Hamilton with engineer Peter Bonnington.

1997 F1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve believes it’s important 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton ‘starts afresh’ when he switches to Ferrari for the 2025 season🐬.

Hamilton will race in ꧒Ferrari red for the first time in March’s Australian Grand Prix.

A♕nd his first outing for Ferrari will ♐be without trusty race engineer Peter ‘Bono’ Bonnington.

Bono will not be following Hamilton to F🦂errari, meaning the seven-time world champion will have a new race engineer for the first time since🤪 2012.

The pair have a g😼reat relationshi🀅p, with the partnership resulting in six world titles for Hamilton at Mercedes.

Bono also introduced the♏ fan favourite phrase ‘Hammertime’.

However, Bonningtoꦑn has been promoted to a new role as head of race engineering at Mercedes.

, Villeneuve explained why starting completely fresh isn’t a bad thing.

“When you do a big move♋ you start afresh li🐈ke Lewis Hamilton is, it means you don't go with your old engineer or physiotherapist like Angela Cullen,” he said.

“He has won with McLaren, he's won wit🍷h Mercedes. So there’s no issue there.”

At the start of 2023, Hamilton lost Angela Cullen - a key membe🅘r of his inner circle.

Cullen was Hamilton’ಌs physioth♍erapist for a number of years during his spell at Mercedes.

Villeneuve added: “I 𓆏have no idea how Angela and Lewis worked together.  As far as I was concerned the driver always relied on his engineer, who was the person that was the closest to him on a race weekend.

“That was alw🤡ays the person that you, the driver, could lean on and that's where you build trust. The physio is part of that small group of people that is in the driver’s confidence loop who tꦦhey rely on.”

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