"Lewis Hamilton to Be a part of Ferrari as New Race Engineer Pete Bonnington Secures Future at Mercedes"

Lewis Hamilton will take up a brand new race engineering job at Ferrari in 2025 after long-serving engineer Pete Bonnington secured his future by being promoted to go of race engineering at Mercedes F1.

Peter Bonnington has labored with Lewis Hamilton for the reason that seven-time world champion joined the staff in 2013, successful six world titles between them.

When Lewis Hamilton introduced he would transfer to Ferrari in 2025, it was unclear whether or not Peter Bonnington, nicknamed Bono, would observe swimsuit or stay at Mercedes.

Nevertheless, forward of this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix, a Mercedes spokesperson confirmed to Formula1.com that Bonnington will take up his new function with instant impact. Bonnington will proceed in that function and as Lewis Hamilton’s race engineer for the rest of the season.

Lewis Hamilton and Peter Bonnington

Peter Bonnington will proceed to be a race engineer for a Mercedes F1 driver subsequent yr, however it’s unclear whether or not that might be George Russell or Hamilton’s substitute. Mercedes’ favorite pupil and F2 driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli is prone to be appointed.

It’s a related association to that of Purple Bull, with Giampiero Lambiase working as head of race engineering whereas persevering with to function race engineer for reigning world champion Max Verstappen.

Peter Bonnington’s new contract continues his contract with the staff, which started when the staff was Honda, continued when it grew to become Brawn GP after which Mercedes.

Throughout that point, he gained in depth observe expertise, working alongside world champions Michael Schumacher and Jenson Button.

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Who might be Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari engineer?

Ricardo Adami is the apparent option to be Lewis Hamilton’s race engineer at Ferrari. He’s at present the engineer for Carlos Sainz Jr., who might be pushed by Hamilton.

Adami was additionally Sebastian Vettel’s engineer from 2015 to 2020 and has been working in F1 since 2002.

He began with Minardi and remained with the staff after it was renamed Toro Rosso, working first with Vettel after which additionally with Daniel Ricciardo.

He arrived at Ferrari concurrently Vettel and led the drivers to 17 victories.

Class: Formulation 1 / Lewis Hamilton / Ferrari Workforce