Forward of Hamilton’s arrival at Maranello subsequent 12 months, and within the wake of Newey’s choice to depart Pink Bull, Ferrari is understood to be pursuing the design genius to come back on board and assist create a superteam.
If its overtures are profitable, then it might be an enormous increase to Hamilton’s future title hopes, after he agreed a deal final winter to hitch the Italian outfit from 2025.
Newey will grow to be a free agent subsequent March, which remains to be early sufficient for him to have an affect on the essential new-rules-era vehicles which might be coming for 2026.
Talking forward of the Miami Grand Prix, Hamilton mentioned he could be “very” excited to work with Newey, as he steered clear of unveiling particulars on whether or not a bid to land him had been a part of the negotiations he had with Ferrari final winter.
“I imply, that is all personal dialog stuff,” mentioned Hamilton. “[But] if I used to be to do an inventory of people who I might like to work with, he would completely be on the prime of it.”
Hamilton added it was clear that Ferrari was making nice strides in F1 proper now, and any success it had in getting Newey would solely additional assist its progress to the entrance of the sphere.
“Adrian…he is obtained such a fantastic historical past, observe document,” added Hamilton. “He has clearly simply achieved an incredible job by means of his profession and interesting with groups, and the data that he has, and I feel he could be an incredible addition.
“I feel they’ve already obtained a fantastic group. They’re already making enormous progress, strides forwards, and their automobile is faster this 12 months. It might be a privilege to work with him.”
Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes-AMG F1 Workforce
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Hamilton and Newey have by no means labored collectively in F1 earlier than, and the closest that got here to taking place was McLaren – which the British driver joined in 2007 shortly after its technical chief had left for Pink Bull.
“After I joined McLaren, I feel it was an evolution of his automobile,” added Hamilton. “I feel I obtained there simply after he left, in order that automobile could have advanced from an idea that he had labored on. I felt privileged that I might had the possibility to the touch one thing that he had labored on.”
Whereas some have prompt that Newey’s departure from Pink Bull will likely be a giant blow to the squad over the subsequent few years, Hamilton just isn’t so positive.
“We simply all the time have to keep in mind that there’s lots of people within the background, and there may be not one key particular person,” he mentioned. “It isn’t one particular person.
“It is an entire group of people that do the job. So, you possibly can think about, of all of the superb expertise that he brings to the group, the people who he works with will proceed to do an incredible job.
“I do not anticipate Pink Bull not persevering with to construct nice vehicles shifting forwards. However any group could be lucky to have the chance to work with him.”