F1 Latest: Lewis Hamilton branded Ferrari 'second choice' in huge Max Verstappen title claim
As the Formula one campaign has thrown up a more open field with many different winners so far throughout this season, will Lewis Hamilton’s decision to make the Ferrari switch come back to bite him as a former driver believes without Max Verstappen, a world championship is not on the cards.
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00:00Dutch driver Tom Coronel believes Ferrari would have preferred Max Verstappen over Lewis
00:07Hamilton for 2025 as they can only become world champions with Verstappen behind the
00:13wheel.
00:14Announcing in February that he'd be leaving Mercedes for Ferrari at the end of this season,
00:19back on the top step of the podium at the British Grand Prix, his ninth P1 at Silverstone,
00:25Hamilton clinched his first win in 945 days to break a streak that extended back to the
00:312021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
00:34Coronel believes Hamilton still has what it takes to become a world champion but the 52-year-old
00:40doubts it will happen with Ferrari as they need more than Hamilton to succeed.
00:45He continued,
00:46I think it was a masterstroke by Ferrari that they took him, but of course they would have
00:51preferred Max.
00:53We can only become world champions with Max and they won't succeed with Hamilton.