{"id":24206,"date":"2024-02-06T17:27:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T14:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/24206\/surprised-bottas-backs-hamilton-to\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T17:27:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T14:27:23","slug":"surprised-bottas-backs-hamilton-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=24206","title":{"rendered":"Surprised Bottas backs Hamilton to succeed at Ferrari"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surprised Bottas backs Hamilton to succeed at Ferrari\u060c<\/p>\n

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Lewis Hamilton's former Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas says he expects the seven-time Formula 1 world champion to be a good fit for Ferrari when the British driver joins the Italian team next year next.<\/p>\n

The move was announced last week after Hamilton, 39, exercised a termination clause in his new contract and signed the sport's oldest, historically most successful and most glamorous team to a multi-year contract at from the start of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI never thought this would happen,\u201d Bottas said on Monday evening at the livery launch of his Sauber-led Stake F1 team in London.<\/p>\n

“I thought in my mind he would stay at Mercedes, but it's Formula 1. Things happen, and I think it's good for him because he obviously made the decision and it's a new departure.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a big step in F1, which will certainly create movement also in the driver market.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamilton will join Charles Leclerc, who has a long-term contract, at Ferrari, a team which last won a constructors' championship in 2008.<\/p>\n

Other multiple champions, Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso, have tried unsuccessfully to win<\/a> titles at Ferrari since Kimi Raikkonen was crowned the team's most recent drivers' champion in 2007.<\/p>\n