British Formula One star Lewis Hamilton will leave Mercedes and join Ferrari for the 2025 season, Sky Sports News understands.
It is understood the Mercedes factory is to be briefed by the chief executive of the firm’s F1 team, Toto Wolff, ahead of a formal announcement later today.
Hamilton was linked to Ferrari for 2024, but he signed a two-year contract worth £100m last summer to stay until the end of 2025.
As part of the deal, it is understood the seven-time world champion is eligible to leave Mercedes at the end of the year.
He is therefore expected to replace Carlos Sainz at Ferrari.
Sainz’s contract is due to expire at the end of 2024, while Ferrari’s other driver, Charles Leclerc, recently agreed a new long-term deal.
Image: Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. Pic: Reuters
Before his current contract was signed, Hamilton told ESPN in May 2023 that he be “lying” if he said he had “never thought about ending my career anywhere else”.
“I thought about and watched the Ferrari drivers on the screens at the track and of course you wonder what it would be like to be in red,” he added.
But he went on to say Mercedes is “home” and that he is happy where he is.
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