1997 F1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve believes it’s necessary 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 might be with out trusty race engineer Peter ‘Bono’ Bonnington.
Bono won’t be following Hamilton to Ferrari, which means the seven-time world champion can have a brand new race engineer for the primary time since 2012.
The pair have an incredible 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 contemporary isn’t a nasty factor.
“Once you do a giant transfer you begin afresh like Lewis Hamilton is, it means you do not go together with your outdated engineer or physiotherapist like Angela Cullen,” he mentioned.
“He has received with McLaren, he is received with Mercedes. So there’s no subject there.”
Initially of 2023, Hamilton misplaced Angela Cullen – a key member of his interior circle.
Cullen was Hamilton’s physiotherapist for a variety of years throughout his spell at Mercedes.
Villeneuve added: “I do not know how Angela and Lewis labored collectively. So far as I used to be involved the motive 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 motive 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.”