Mercedes workforce principal Toto Wolff says persons are improper to suppose Lewis Hamilton may face some struggles adapting to his new life at Ferrari.
Hamilton is leaving Mercedes on the finish of this season after a 12-year spell to affix Ferrari as team-mate to Charles Leclerc.
It will likely be the primary time that he has raced for a non-British-based workforce in F1, having initially began his profession with McLaren in 2007.
Some have instructed that Hamilton may face challenges in adapting to a very completely different tradition at Maranello.
However the seven-time world champion’s present workforce boss Wolff is satisfied that Hamilton will rapidly become familiar with issues.
“I feel many individuals say that it’ll be actually troublesome,” defined Wolff.
“However I feel if you happen to say it’ll be actually troublesome, then usually it is the other.

Frederic Vasseur, Group Principal and Common Supervisor, Scuderia Ferrari, with Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes-AMG
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“Ferrari is a superb workforce, nice individuals, a lot of emotion and fervour and due to this fact it is stress. However I consider they’ll discover a method of working with one another.”
Hamilton stated earlier this yr that he was ignoring the sceptics over a alternative he’s satisfied is right for him.
“There’s not been a second the place I’ve questioned it, and I am not swayed by different individuals’s feedback,” he stated.
“Even as we speak, there’s individuals persevering with to speak shit, and it’ll proceed on for the remainder of the yr.
“And I will have to simply do what I did within the earlier time. Solely you may know what was best for you. And will probably be an thrilling time for me.”
The freshness of Antonelli
Wolff added that the emotional ties to Hamilton will seemingly final without end, however he’s additionally excited on the prospect of a driver shake-up inside Mercedes, with younger Italian Andrea Kimi Antonelli being chosen because the British driver’s successor.
“I feel we had such an excellent run with Lewis during the last 12 years,” continued Wolff. “He is all the time going to be a part of the household.

Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes-AMG F1 Group
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“However clearly, as a competitor, once we attempt to beat him subsequent yr, Kimi becoming a member of George clearly brings momentum with it, plus youth and freshness.
“You’ll be able to really feel the type of smile that’s in your organisation with having an 18-year-old in a automobile.
“However having stated that, clearly, there can be moments the place Lewis’s expertise would have benefited the workforce.
“Kimi goes to be on a steep studying curve, however it’s completely the fitting factor for the workforce to do and there is not one individual that might have finished it in a different way.”