At the end of the 2024 season, Lewis Hamilton will leave Mercedes. It emerged at the beginning of February that he’ll join Ferrari for 2025. This surely ranks as the biggest driver transfer in F1’s history. Indeed, Hamilton brings to an end the most successful partnership the sport has ever seen to join its most iconic team. When he joined the Silver Arrows in 2013, he’d won one world championship. His stint at McLaren peaked with his 2008 triumph but aside from that it was a story of what might have been. But between 2014 and 2020, he’d win six out of seven world championships. No driver had …
