Jame𝓀s Vowles, who worked with Hamilton on his strategy, has left Mercedes to take over as Williams team principal - it remains to be seen how his exit affects the team.

But ‘Bono’ remains for an 11th consecutive seaso💃n alongside Hamilton as his engiꦚneer.

• The details of Lewis Hamiltꦍon's phone call to James Vowles

“I’m incredibly grateful for Bono,” the seven-time 💫world champion said. 

“I’ve had an amazing journey with him, I think we’ve got one of th📖e longest, if not the longest standing driver-engineer partnerships that there’s been, and he’s been hugely i🃏ntegral to my success.

“We’ve had an amazing journey together, we’ve supported each other on and off-track, through good and bad times, and I love worki💖ng with Bono; he’s like a brother to me, a brother from another mother.

“I think he’s probably one of the few people that c🤪an truly stand me, I would say, on the good and bad days – except for Roscoe [Hamilton's dog]!

“How calm he’s able to be throughout a race, and how he’s able 🔥to help guide and help mꦚe navigate through a race. I don’t think there’s many people that can do that.”

Hamilton insisted about the duo’s trademark 🌸phrase: “I think I came up with Hammer Time!

“I think because there was a point where he was like, ‘Now it’s time to push’, and I got frustrated with it because I’m like: ‘Dude I’m already p✤ushing!’

“But I was like, if you’re trying to signify ‘now’s the time to go all out, use everything yoﷺu have’, just tell me it’s 'Hammer time'. That was part of the♊ growth we had.”

Hamilton and Bono have won six drivers’ champ𓆉ionships and eight constructors’ championships to😼gether.