Our SHOCKED reaction to Lewis Hamilton joining Ferrari

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What on earth is going on???? Lewis Hamilton is joining Ferrari from 2025 onwards. Matt and Tommy discuss their immediate thoughts on the CHAOS that is unfolding in the F1 world!

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Our reaction to Lewis Hamilton joining Ferrari in 2025 hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy my god I’ve never felt more more all over the place I don’t know what’s going on Tommy what is happening this is the emergency podcast of all emergency

Podcast I cannot believe we’re here we’ve literally just recorded a predictions video where we didn’t even mention about Lewis Hamilton and George Russell or Mercedes because they were locked in and of course a few days later it’s like okay biggest bombshell in Formula 1 history I can’t I can’t get over this I

Can’t get over this leis Hamilton is joining Ferrari in 2025 doesn’t sound real is happening are we are we are we awake crack now am I going to am I going to just be like that was a that was genuinely I would think this was a weird

Dream I’d be like Tommy you never guess what I dreamt of last night leis hon joining Ferrari no shut up mat what do you have some cheese before you went to bed you know what I mean like that it is what’s going on I don’t know what’s

Going on especially because we we hyped up Silly Season uh this year and all the driver contracts are out of contract and then sh gets announced at the same team land gets announced at the same team and we were going oh God it’s going to be the same isn’t it but no

Hamilton drops the chaos bomb of all chaos bombs and oh my word I I it still can’t compute in my brain that this is happening it is probably the most exciting insane Formula 1 news ever maybe I literally can’t remember a crazier moment uh in terms of

Like Silly Season it’s absolutely mad it doesn’t feel real like this does not feel tangible you know you see the announcement and you’re just like like huh huh yeah the driver that was locked in we’ve had these rumors before especially like Hamilton joining Ferrari it’s always been a thing so every time

It comes up you go nah yeah because it has been rumored before hasn’t it many times he’s got a close relationship with Ferrari he likes Ferrari he buys you know he’s bought Ferrari cars before and he he knows the the president of Ferrari and things like that but you always just

Go oh this is just Silly Season rumors trying to get a story and then it’s like oh it’s being reported here it’s being reported here it’s being reported here it’s like this is happening oh my God and this is unbelievable I can’t it is just the most insane news ever is is mad

And this is how I know deep down that I love Formula 1 to the absolute core of my being because I see that news and then then just like running around the house what do I do like we’re texting each other like what what happens now Tommy like not only Hamilton joining

Ferrari but then how does the Domino affect is this the small Domino or and then the big Domino is I don’t know Nicholas latifi returns like what what what’s going to be the end the end thing here because clearly this is not just going to be a one move thing this is

Going to cause chaos utter chaos this is what it reminds me of is um and and it’s also a similar time that that when if you remember the the co ID year where we didn’t actually start the season till later on and we it was announced that uh

Sebastian vet was leaving Ferrari and that caused a big domino effect but it was for the year after before the season had even started and and that is the crazy thing that Hamilton is joining Ferrari that is absolutely mindblowing but we’re going into this season and he will be driving for Mercedes

Still that to me is crazy it’s not even like it’s happened halfway through the season it’s like oh okay we’ve got another whole year of this the constant rumors you know what if Mercedes are good what if Ferrari get bad like has he made the right choice it’s going to be

Crazy and then like you say this is just going to be the domino effect that just causes absolute Carnage so I think on that point let’s let’s dissect what you just said there because why now that is a really good question uh which I don’t think is actually in our list of

Questions uh someone did say why now uh Luke Luke up high why before even seen the 2024 car let me read that out then Luke up high comes in with why before we even see the 2024 car wouldn’t Hamilton at least wait to see if Mercedes made a

Step forward before thinking about a move to Ferrari it’s a very good point he’s given up on Mercedes before he’s even seen the car roll out in 2024 and you would think Lewis Hamilton the statistical greatest of all time has the flexibility to decide when he wants to

Go you know at whatever point of pleasing that he desires right like you would think Ferrari would take him halfway through the 2024 season what I’m wondering is whether there is a chain of events going on here where Hamilton’s had to decide sooner than perhaps ideal because from a business perspective from

A driver’s perspective it doesn’t make all that much sense he hasn’t even had testing and he’s gone NOP I’m done no all good uh especially as well when you hear these murmurs of oh well the first time in 3 years the the car actually feels drivable on the simulator says

Anthony Davidson yeah and it’s like Hamilton’s gone no I don’t believe you I’m out yeah it’s crazy the the only thing that Springs to mind is potentially the fact that charlot Clair has locked in this big contract with Ferrari of course and SS hadn’t yet so maybe it was that

Case of like if Hamilton wanted to do this it has to be now like it is literally a like take the leap now because science hasn’t signed and we’ll get into science later because this is going to be another fascinating kind of aspect to it um but

Maybe that is it that that science hadn’t signed yet so it was literally like Hamilton could have these talks now that’s one side of it the other side of it is that my word what is that w14 like that Hamilton sat in it and gone peace

Off like I I don’t think it would be that bad but it can’t be a great he must be judging it from his previous experiences and going well they can’t have changed it that much because we haven’t got had the regulation changes yet so clearly Hamilton doesn’t think

That there is that that he that they can close the chasm between themselves and Red Bull before 2025 so instead he’s gone well you know what I’ve always wanted to be in red overalls exactly it’s the last rle of a dice um you know he’s not he’s not got loads of time left

Maybe he will stay for for a bit longer and maybe he will want to see till 2026 but yeah we all we were I think everyone was mentally prepared that Hamilton would end his career at Mercedes it just seemed so certain uh and for him to to

Take that switch now uh is mindblowing and so unbelievably exciting as well now Tommy yes I want to I know it’s usually fan questions that we read out but I want to submit my own question which is so so Matt P1 Gallagher comes in with what’s going to happen to

Lir it’s a very good point because Ferrari have you know stated and been very clear that lir is the Golden Boy he is the the number one kind of I mean Ferrari haven’t exactly executed the greatest of strategies with with him um but we we all believe that lir was the

One that Ferrari were channeling all their resources into to make sure that he stays for as long as possible to win World Championships and now Lewis Hamilton’s joining the team and Lewis Hamilton is not a number two driver now on one side of me being a massive lir

Fan I am so excited to see how those two stack up against each other in a team like I am so unbelievably Peggy 18 at thinking about that right but on the flip side I am scared I am absolutely petrified that leou hson is going to

Come in and just wipe the floor with with with with charl and I then worry about what the future might look like but that’s just the pess pessimism inside of me it does it does make you wonder like I personally think that sha uh has the the talent to be able to to

Compete with Hamilton um I’m not saying he’s a better driver than Hamilton but like he is so unbelievably quick I think he’s one of the best drivers in Formula 1 so he has what it takes but apart from like your side you’ve got to think what Char’s thinking that he’s

Just signed this massive new contract with Ferrari and then they’re like right your teammate is now seven time world champion Louis Hamilton and he’s like oh my oh okay because because it would there would regardless of how much you back yourself you are then like well they have

Signed the most legendary Formula 1 driver of this era you know a huge star he’s not there to be my number two driver is he like he’s going to want he’s he’s come to win the World Championship but I want to win the World Championship for Ferrari this is like my

Dream and it and that whole dynamic is completely flipped like it’s insane so so there’s a dynamic that you have been constantly bringing up on the podcast around Lewis Hamilton and George Russell and if they have a championship winning car they will take points off of each

Other we then go to Lewis Hamilton with charl L Clair which I think is even stronger in some senses because of shl’s love for Ferrari and wanting to win a world title with them and then of course Hamilton wanting to get that eighth that

Could be as much as charl is you know a very nice polite human being you do wonder whether there will be that clash between the two of them where both of their Ambitions just Collide and it absolutely petrifies me I I know I said about Lou hamton wiping the floor with

Him but I don’t I don’t believe he’ll do it I think that sha will be there with him um and you know delusion whatever but I still believe sha has the talent especially in the races we’ we’ve seen that time and time again and also of course in qualifying he is an

Outstanding qualifier but there is something that really concerns me that Ferrari have found something which is great they’ve sold Hamilton the dream Hamilton joins wins the eighth World title and charlot cl finally has a world title winning car and doesn’t win the World Championship I would internally combust

Yeah it’s so true like it is absolutely insane that yeah you can’t you can’t even claim that Hamilton has left because he’s scared of George Russell which of course there’s no chance that’s the case because he he was so good and wiped the floor with him really last last year and

They they had their moments where they were like colliding and I did say that it’s an interesting narrative where George is the future of that team how long do they keep pushing it with Hamilton now that that whole problem has gone to Ferrari where you’ve got the young upand cominging Talent who has

Shown that he can win races he’s so loyal to Ferrari but then you’ve got you’ve got this it’s it’s absolutely crazy um it’s such a Bonkers move for so many reasons I absolutely love it uh I am one of these people that have always wanted to see Louis Hamilton

Join Ferrari um I think it’s just such an exciting thing to see uh one of the greatest of all time and one of the most Legend driv is probably like arguably like top two or three if not the most legendary Formula One driver ever with the most legendary

Team ever is with the most legendary upand cominging world champion in Charlotte Clair but like what a combination and that is probably why he’s he’s gone for it he has been lured in by the the love of Ferrari like that it it shows that for all the memes and the

Jokes about haha clown strategy all this Ferrari can still bring in a driver like that because they’re Ferrari there’s something about it they are just you know look what vettle did like he went there Alonzo went there um Michael shim them had great times yeah well exactly and and yeah you can argue

That that schuma went it went really well but the other two like Alonzo and V when it didn’t work out but Hamilton’s seen that and he’s still like yeah I want to drive for Ferrari it just shows the pull they have I’ve actually realized what the I reckon the last bit

Of poll that was necessary for Hamilton to join Ferrari do you know what it is company car no well that but also I think he Hamilton looked last year and saw just how much fun Carlos SS and Charlotte Clair had when they did the Alphabet game with us

So I think Hamilton wants a piece of that he does I think he saw that you know he’s going to get an opportunity to potentially film with P1 and gone that’s it I’m he wants to do an hour podcast with us where we talk about his hair in

A zamort hotel uh that is clearly the reason yeah absolutely right next question uh let’s go with O2 Rachel D who would Ferrari base their car on seven time world champion or possible future world champion now I think this this particular question is obviously slightly looking at hey what Red Bull do

With Max fappen and and all that good stuff even though Alex albon very eloquently explained that it’s kind of based on Max foren but not as much as everyone says and it’s not like nobody else can drive the car it’s just that if you’re the fastest driver you are going

To get you know preferential development paths and that sort of stuff um I I I Hamilton Can’t just join and be like I like it like this and then they’re Ferrari go oh God drop all the tools we need to change everything to what Hamilton likes I I don’t necessarily see

That charl of course is the one that’s bedded in and Ferrari are just going to build a car and then depending on how long Hamilton decides to stay at Ferrari there may well be a shape in it depending on how how well they do so I

Think it is very much based upon who is doing the best because I know for a fact Ferrari won’t make a decision on who they’re going to actually uh back in this scenar Mario because I can imagine they have a board meeting and they go right we’ve signed leis Hamilton and

Then they all just sit around and go so who who do we want to win now then yeah they just see I I think there is there is like I wonder how much of it from the other side like I said that Hamilton sees that legendary Ferrari status and

Wants to wants a bit of that the other side Ferrari still want that kind of like we’re the biggest team in Formula 1 we can get leis Hamilton on board and they’ve not really thought it through properly it’s kind of like you know signing the two best football players in the world that

Play in the same position or something and you’re like this is great on paper but what do we do now where you kind of want that but then you go is this going to work so yeah it’s it’s going to be fascinating to see if they do that um

We’ve seen before that say 2022 caros Sint struggled with how the the car was going it suited Char down to the ground then uh Carlos got more confident then there was that bit in the middle of the season last year where uh science was looking like the absolute goat and

Performing really well so it would be fascinating to see which direction they go go in but for me Hamilton is one of if not the best driver in terms of adap ability the fact that he’s gone through so many eras I know team listening to this cuz Tommy is gassing

Hamilton up low tomorrow in this podcast so just write it down okay most legendary most adaptable like this man you’re getting ready for a a shell video with him aren’t you with the alphabet challenge I see it already but he he is the most like the I know he’s not one in

This new era um but like we’ve mentioned many times not many people have but he has adapt every year from like when he started to them completely changing the cars in like 2009 uh and he won again and then they changed it again um to to

Like the hybrids and he won again and they changed it to wider cars and he won again and he has shown himself to be able to adapt to these cars so that’s why I think that whatever the Ferrari is like Hamilton will be able to drive it

And get the best out of it so um yeah it’s going to be it’s going to be so fascinating to see how they how it goes down because the fact that they now have this driver Dynamic the one I mentioned so many times about the problem with George Russell and Hamilton being teammates

It’s now just shifted to Ferrari and now we see is it is Hamilton’s idea literally the fact that he’s going to give it a couple more years I I don’t think this is the case I’m sure going to say exactly the same that no way is this

The case but two more years I’ve driven for Ferrar double world oh no but like he’s driven for Ferrari and he’s he’s kind of ticked that off his bu F1 bucket list and he goes he’s going to want to win the bare minimum I think that’s the

Bare minimum is I’ve gone to Ferrari I’ve driven something I’ve always wanted to do and then upwards from that is winning and World titles now something that you know I’m really interested to see is how Hamilton firstly copes with integrating into an Italian Formula 1 team which is something that is not the

Easiest thing in the world to do you know they Ferrari expect you to relocate and all this sort of stuff and you know try and embed yourself in the team um like Ferrari but also how is he going to cope when he has a 12C pit stop at Hungary or how is he

Going to cope when they don’t pit him for hard tires at the end of a race at Silverstone what I think he’s going to do is he’s going to pit anyway that’s that’s what I’m really interested to see is can Hamilton tidy up the areas where ferari are lacking and have been lacking

Um and and this is what we’ve discussed before if like a vapen went there or a Hamilton oh my God it’s happening it still doesn’t feel real but having someone like Hamilton go into Ferrari I feel like he genuinely will just tie the loose knots and and just figure stuff

Out and he could win another five World titles with Ferrari um probably not going to happen but we are going to see what it’s potentially like for Ferrari to actually work well maybe fingers crossed yeah that we like you said we we’ve had those discussions of like maybe Ferrari need

To go back to the Shoemaker era where someone comes in and they demand it like charlot Clair is an unbelievable driver like I’ve said many times on this podcast and you have said many times on this podcast his one said but his one slight flaw is that

He’s maybe too much of a nice guy and he will come into the p and yeah he would just be like yeah great whereas things that come to mind is um you know where uh there there were moments where Hamilton was going to I think pit for fastest lap in one of the

Races and you knew his tires were were worn and he remembered back in like China 2007 when he rolled into the pits and he he thinks about things like that and that’s the kind of thing I think that could really help Ferrari where they go you need to pick forter and

Hamilton would be the kind of ballsy driver that goes I’m the driver I know exactly what these tires are doing this is what we should be doing and he just does it uh and that is something that I think Ferrari desperately need and it’s what and to be fair it’s what Carlos has

Done every now and then um but Carlos has Carlos has always been like maybe not as quick as sh but he’s maybe got the brain power to to like more of that racing mind brain power is Savage I think it’s more just um the fact that he’s he is more Savage

I think that’s probably more the cas yeah has a very high functioning brain Tommy uh and and you know brain power is sorry you know what I meant I know what you mean I just want to cover that one off my God I’m not calling Char Clair stupid even though he himself call

Himself stupid um but yeah I’m saying that yeah he would he he would basically be more ruthless and be like no this is what we’re doing uh and to have a quick driver like that and in that situation yeah that’s why he’s been so hard to be that’s why he’s

Won loads of World Championships so it’s going to be um exciting but of course um does mean that Carlos is well what happen to well yeah that’s a great question Tommy that is a question from Misa awaki what’s happening to Carlos um a big question uh we have just done our

2025 uh driver team predictions and I feel like Tommy might be on to something now uh because I thought he’d stay for another year and perhaps he was going to had Hamilton decided actually I want to come um as of recording right now we don’t know what’s happening to Carlos we

Also don’t know who’s joining Mercedes so we’re going to discuss that now and um for Carlos I mean do you just see it being the route that you expected now Tommy I do um there is of course now the fact that that’s happened uh there is a possibility that it could

Just be a straight swap for Mercedes um I do wonder if Mercedes now with these rumors and how much maybe it’s been maybe they’ve been blindsided because from what we’ve seen on Twitter this has happened very quickly it’s been like oh I think this is happening to oh my God

It’s happening so you’ve got to think that normally these things appear out with constant rumors for weeks and weeks and weeks and then it happens so you’ve got to think that Mercedes surely didn’t know that this was going to happen this quickly that they surely don’t have a driver locked in already

And with these Formula 1 teams they always like to do it where they like to save themselves the blushes even if it maybe is quite a snap decision they’re like oh we don’t want to look silly that Hamilton’s left we want to almost announce first blah blah blah to

Mercedes and things like that so I think there is a possibility for Carlos to go there because it would be that he’s a great driver think he’d work very well with George Russell actually be a quick driver pairing um however I do think Carlos’s best bet is

To build that Audi team around him and now he’s got that perfect opportunity to do that where to go and have a drive for Ferrari to drive sbox for a year hope Audi build the engine of all engines for the new engine regs in 2026 and he’s

Laughing like Lewis Hamilton did in 2014 that he’s got a car that’s 5 Seconds quicker than everyone else don’t know if that’s necessarily going to happen but it’s a gamble worth doing I think but then of course that is thrilling because uh if he do I kind of want him to do

That because it also leaves a slot of Mercedes and then the puzzle just keeps The Dominoes just keep falling and it’s like another change another change another change and we can constantly be like excited for drivers just going everywhere exactly and I guess you know makes I wouldn’t say the most sense from

A Carlos sence perspective as I kind of argued that I just think it’d be a waste of a year for him to go into a car that’s not going to be anything like the new regulations that we have in 2026 yeah he’ll embed himself in the team but

Realistically I don’t think that’s a huge advantage and probably will feel like a missed year for Carlos um but maybe that’s the only route he has now because I can’t there there makes no sense for a straight swap especially if Carlos has his sight set at Aldi for

2026 why would you go to Mercedes for a year it’s a waste for Mercedes and it’s a waste for carloss cuz you’re putting resources into a driver that’s not going to stay so for me I know that there there’s one man there is one man that is sat

Here with or without a cigar I don’t know it just feels like it it kind of the image just he’s a boss is is Mr Fernando Alonzo just sitting back quietly looking at all of this drama because he loves a bit of transfer driver Market silly season drama and he

Will at any point burn a contract to go somewhere else I genuinely think Alonzo will go to Mercedes if wild we’re gonna have to do our Silly Season again aren’t we now yeah our predictions are finished now mate but why not why not because surely you want Mercedes want a driver

That is performing at the absolute topnotch if you have Carlos signs go there one it’s a waste and two Carlos H and George Russell are you extracting the absolute thousandth out of that car I would say not if you compare it to Fernando Alonzo Fernando Alonzo was a

Top three driver last year we saw incredible performances from him why not like I just what a what a move that would be for Alonzo I’m sure he has in his contract with Aston if it’s rubbish then I can leave and I or maybe if he hasn’t won or something there must be

Something to get Alonzo out there he’s the burner of all bridges he knows how to get out of contract I I I see it I genuinely would love to see cuz Alonzo and Russell they get on so well as well besties they’re playing ping pong on private jets I think Fernando will

Genuinely go to Mercedes oh my God this silly season is the goat um I’m so excited I just can’t wait to see how it’s going to pan out like that is a good theory I think think the options for me of if science does go to stake I see it

Between Aon albon and yeah maybe Alonzo is is a is a good shout it it all it all depends what Mercedes want to do of like we said that Ferrari now have this problem but is it Mercedes now uh is it their chance to basically go right George is the Golden Boy now

Put someone in that’s GNA grow with him you could argue esan oon and a teammate is not the best idea own Formula One team on a one driver team yeah um but Alex Alburn maybe um I think he he definitely a as well he’d be a great uh

Number two driver to George no disrespect to Alburn I think he’d be quick he wouldn’t be like complete number two driver but I think he’d be that good level where he wouldn’t it wouldn’t be too chaotic and they’re good mates as well so what I would say Tommy

Is and I mean no disrespect to gr63 has he proved he is the Golden Boy for Mercedes moving forward because for me he’s had some standout performances of course he won at Brazil he’s one of the only drivers to have won in the last couple of years

But last he’s also had a very lackluster season last year in particular so for me Mercedes when you look at you know when you look at the results of course he beat Hamilton the year before but of course team LH will argue that to the hills that there was reliability and

Testing new setups for the rubbish car and that sort of stuff so for me I I don’t think that Mercedes are in the position to go yes George you are our future you are our next 10 world 10 time world champ ion so that’s why I’m entertaining the fact

That I think Alonzo would I think Alonzo would be a Fant just for a year or two warm that seat up for Kimmy Antonelli and then you’re absolutely flying oh trust me I I feel like that is that is the future but but as of right

Now I think Alonzo has a couple of years gets a few wins maybe even a world championship if Mercedes sort their life out and my God Formula One be a better place for it and also you’ve got to think with the greatest of respect to someone like Alex alurn or or Aon or

Someone for Formula 1 management and stuff it’s a game of Egos and like I mentioned earlier Mercedes are going to be embarrassed that LS Hamilton has left that team a legendary driver like Le Hamilton has left them doesn’t believe in them and what better way to be like flex your

Muscles and be like we’ve got Alonzo like that that is a big statement to be like we’ve got Fernando Alonzo whereas Alex Alban he’s had a fantastic year he’s been really really good but it’s not like uh you you’re you know you’re at your seat like oh my God Alex albin’s

Gone there whereas Alonzo is like huge PR like oh my God Alonzo’s gone to Mercedes it’s massive like they are a huge manufacturer that have just lost the most commercially you know most commercial driver the sports ever seen and they they’re going to want to replace him

With someone massive so yeah Alonzo does the more we’re talking about it Alonzo does make more sense look oh my God I love that one I know genuinely the 2024 pre-season has been better than 2023 it really has oh what a year already oh my

God I am like oh now I’m like why can’t this be now why why do we have to wait a year to see Hamilton at Ferrari what just saying that out loud how is that real like that’s not real I can’t we we could genuinely talk about

This for 15 hours I think um and I think we will also do another video podcast just kind of talking about the whole connotations of what is this move genuinely going to do to the whole driver Market um we’re going to maybe let the dust settle slightly with this

One just to kind of figure out what is actually going on um but Tommy unless you have anything else to to add uh give me your final thoughts my final thoughts are just thank you the Silly Season Gods we were starved last season and you’ve dropped the greatest one in the history

Of Formula 1 so thank you yep I would say similarly uh I am so excited to see Hamilton at ferari I think that it’s going to be an insane partnership uh between him and and lir and I just really pray that I don’t know I’m on S I’m like I really want Ferrari

To be really really good but secondly I want Char to get a world championship so that’s going to be a conversation later down the line I think but anyway we’ll get on to that one am I going to cry or am I going to be happy we’ll have to

Find out see you soon everybody lots of love bye bye bye