Lewis Hamilton insists he isn’t disenchanted that he is not going to get the possibility to work with F1 design nice Adrian Newey at Ferrari subsequent season.
The seven-time world champion had beforehand admitted it could be a “privilege” to hitch forces with Newey when his Crimson Bull exit was introduced in Could. He added that the legendary designer was the primary particular person he wished to work with in F1.
Ferrari had been heavily-linked with a transfer for Newey however Aston Martin in the end gained the race for his providers, asserting the assertion signing forward of this weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix at Baku.
Requested by Crash.web if any a part of him was disenchanted that Newey gained’t be becoming a member of him at Ferrari, Hamilton replied: “Truthfully, no.
“I really feel like, whereas I’ve talked about earlier than that it could be an honour to work with Adrian, I’ve been privileged to work with two championship-winning groups that didn’t have Adrian.
“I feel any workforce in all probability would have been glad to have had him. However on the finish of the day he needed to do what was finest for him. It doesn’t change something for me. It doesn’t change my aim, or my focus with the following transfer.
“So I nonetheless consider 100% that there’s heaps we will do there.”
Charles Leclerc echoed his future Ferrari teammate’s feedback, stressing: “There aren’t any disappointments. It’s not like we haven’t tried or spoken to Adrian. I do know that there have been talks and he made his determination. I respect his determination.
“On the finish as Ferrari, we now have at all times thought of extra the group than the person. In fact Adrian has an unbelievable palmaras [record] and has carried out wonderful issues.
“However we now have a tremendous group and I’ve no doubts that going ahead we now have an especially robust workforce to come back again on the high. I’m actually proud of the construction.
“Clearly it’s Fred [Vasseur, Ferrari team principal]’s job to attempt to put the workforce in the very best place to attempt to win races and I 200 p.c belief Fred and I’m utterly onboard together with his imaginative and prescient.
“It’s a steady course of to attempt to enhance Ferrari over time and we’re in the course of this course of. However I’m tremendous proud of the best way he sees issues and the issues he does.”
