Mercedes F1 team boss Toto Wolff has said the team will discuss the possibility of Lewis Hamilton’s race engineer Peter Bonnington joining Ferrari. It was revealed on Thursday that Lewis Hamilton will leave Mercedes and join rival Ferrari from the start of the 2025 season.
Top drivers who change teams are often joined by personnel who worked with them on the previous team. Some staff members transfer because a driver specifically calls a colleague they trust or because they like working with that driver. Teams are generally open to the idea of bringing in familiar faces to help drivers acclimate to an unfamiliar environment. In 1996, following Michael Schumacher, technical director Ross Brawn, chief designer Rory Byrne and other key members of the Enstone team moved from Benetton to Ferrari, all under the guidance of then Maranello manager Jean, recognized by Todd as a key element of the winning package. Other notable examples include race engineer Jock Clear who followed Jacques Villeneuve from Williams to BAR in 2000, and Andrea Stella who joined Fernando Alonso from Ferrari to McLaren in 2015. Transfer. Stella stayed after Alonso’s departure and eventually became the team leader. Peter Bonnington, also known as “Bono”, famous for his radio call to Lewis Hamilton called “Hammer Time”, has a special relationship with “Bono”. He started his career with Jordan and has been with the Brackley team since his early days at Honda. It’s unclear whether Bonnington plans to move to Italy, but Wolff said he expects the topic to come up. “I think this is a discussion everyone should be having in the coming months,” Wolff said. “And I already talked to Bono, but when I told him[del trasferimento di Hamilton]he said, ‘Is it April 1st?’ We’ll talk about it in the future. ” The problem is that Bonnington will remain with Mercedes until the last race of the season, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on December 8, and will have to work with Ferrari at the beginning of 2025. It’s a very tight transition in terms of gardening leave. Aside from team principal Fred Vasseur, Hamilton will find few familiar faces at Ferrari, but former Mercedes performance director Loïc Serra was one of Vasseur’s first key hires and will officially start working at Ferrari l next year. Hamilton also worked with Jec Clear during his first two years at Mercedes, but Clear’s main focus now is on Ferrari’s young driver program. Whether Bonnington can take over as Ferrari’s race engineer , the team will have to reorganize and find a new role for Ricardo Adami, who currently works with Carlos Sainz.
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