1997 F1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve believes it’s essential Lewis Hamilton ‘begins afresh’ when he switches to Ferrari for the 2025 season.
Hamilton will race in Ferrari crimson for the primary time in March’s Australian Grand Prix.
And his first outing for Ferrari will probably be with out trusty race engineer Peter ‘Bono’ Bonnington.
Bono is not going to be following Hamilton to Ferrari, which means the seven-time world champion may have a brand new race engineer for the primary time since 2012.
The pair have a terrific relationship, with the partnership leading to six world titles for Hamilton at Mercedes.
Bono additionally launched the fan favorite phrase ‘Hammertime’.
Nonetheless, Bonnington has been promoted to a brand new function as head of race engineering at Mercedes.
Chatting with Governor Sport, Villeneuve defined why beginning utterly recent isn’t a foul factor.
“If you do an enormous transfer you begin afresh like Lewis Hamilton is, it means you do not go along with your previous engineer or physiotherapist like Angela Cullen,” he stated.
“He has received with McLaren, he is received with Mercedes. So there’s no concern there.”
In the beginning of 2023, Hamilton misplaced Angela Cullen – a key member of his inside circle.
Cullen was Hamilton’s physiotherapist for quite a lot of years throughout his spell at Mercedes.
Villeneuve added: “I don’t know how Angela and Lewis labored collectively. So far as I used to be involved the driving force at all times relied on his engineer, who was the individual that was the closest to him on a race weekend.
“That was at all times the individual that you, the driving force, might lean on and that is the place you construct belief. The physio is a part of that small group of individuals that’s within the driver’s confidence loop who they depend on.”
