Lewis Hamilton announced he was joining Ferrari even before the 2024 season started. He’s effectively been a lame duck at Brackley alongside George Russell. Mercedes started the year as F1’s fourth-fastest team before joining the victory fight in the summer. Hamilton ended a two-and-a-half-year drought at Silverstone and then won again in Belgium, albeit after teammate Russell was disqualified for breaching the weight limit. Since the summer break, the Silver Arrows have regressed again, notching just one podium in the last four races. Even then, Russell was the beneficiary of a late crash inv…
