Lewis Hamilton is officially a Ferrari driver!
This page is translated from the original post "Lewis Hamilton est offciellement pilote Ferrari !" in French.
- 02/01/2025 12:09
British champion Lewis Hamilton celebrated this new stage of his career in an incredible way with a rare photo.
Lewis Hamilton has become a master in the art of communication. A talent he masters just as well as handling the steering wheel. Bound by a contract with Mercedes, he was unable to comment on his move to Ferrari before January 1, 2025, at 12:01 AM, and he didn’t wait long to do so. Without fanfare or glitz, just on his social media with a childhood photo showing his karting with his favorite number 44 and sporting an exclusive red helmet. Prescient?
If you know Sir Lewis well, you know that his father gave him a yellow helmet at the start of his career so he could be easily recognized in the peloton. This anecdote, like many others, can be found in the Collector AUTOhebdo issue dedicated to him, in Print or in Digital format.
With 7 Formula 1 World Championship titles, 105 wins, 197 podiums, and 104 pole positions, Lewis Hamilton holds one of the most exceptional records in Formula 1. But above all, it was a strategic move by the Italian manufacturer, as he had been racing for Mercedes for the past 11 years. On February 1st, following the announcement of this transfer, searches for “Ferrari stocks” skyrocketed by over 2700% worldwide. Meanwhile, searches for “Mercedes stocks” increased by a more modest 351%.
Google Trends data suggest that the news, purely sports-related, pushed interest in the Italian automaker to historic highs, over seven times the levels observed during Ferrari’s stock market debut on the New York Stock Exchange in October 2015. The transfer of the century, no doubt, but now, he must not disappoint…
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