Peter Bonnington Stays Loyal to Mercedes as Lewis Hamilton Strikes to Ferrari

Lewis Hamilton’s long-time race engineer Peter Bonnington won’t be a part of the seven-time world champion at Ferrari F1.

Peter Bonnington, often known as “Bono”, who’s Lewis Hamilton’s race engineer at Mercedes F1, will stay with the workforce in 2025 and shall be promoted to move of race engineering.

Peter Bonnington will mix his present position as Hamilton’s race engineer together with his new position till the tip of this season.

A Mercedes spokesperson confirmed that Bonnington, 49, will stay with the workforce in 2025, when Lewis Hamilton strikes to Ferrari, and can function race engineer for one among Mercedes’ two drivers.

Bonnington turned Hamilton’s race engineer in 2013, when he moved from McLaren and beforehand labored with Michael Schumacher on the Brackley workforce.

Hamilton and Bonnington fashioned a robust workforce partnership, with Bonnington constantly alongside Hamilton all through Hamilton’s six-time World Championship profession with the Silver Arrows.

When Hamilton introduced his transfer to Ferrari earlier this 12 months, there have been doubts that his trusted ally would comply with the seven-time world champion to Maranello, however that chance has now vanished.

Peter Bonnington

Hamilton will nonetheless meet some acquainted faces in Italy, as former Mercedes F1 engineer Loic Serra joins Scuderia Ferrari as head of chassis efficiency engineering in October.

Ferrari F1 workforce boss Frédéric Vasseur additionally enjoys a superb relationship with the 39-year-old Hamilton, relationship again to when he was a member of the junior method workforce ART Grand Prix.

Hamilton may even reunite at Ferrari with former efficiency engineer Jock Clear, with whom he spent his first two years at Mercedes.

Bonnington final shared a Grand Prix podium with Hamilton on the British Grand Prix in July. Hamilton gained for the primary time in two and a half years.

“I wasn’t crying, I simply had one thing in my eyes,” Bonnington, nicknamed Bono, informed Sky Sports activities of the emotional dwelling win.

“It is thrilling. It has been an extended, very long time, however he and I’ve labored onerous to come back again. We have labored onerous, little by little.”

Mercedes have gained three of the final 4 Grands Prix, with Hamilton taking two victories and teammate George Russell one. The 2024 F1 season resumes this weekend at Zandvoort.

Class: Components 1 / Lewis Hamilton / Mercedes F1