Bojan Vrbnjak
Speculation of possible departure Lewis Hamilton to the team Ferrari were the top story of the year Silly season 2019 Formula 1 - or the time of pickles. After it became known that he was the star of the team Mercedes as many as twice met with John Elkann, President Ferrari, is rumored in the kitchen of the royal class of motorsport fair incense.
One of speculation she argued that Hamilton in the season 2021 k Ferrari moved right along with Toth Wolff, team leader Mercedes. Colleagues from Motorsport-Total.com on the basis of this, they drew up their thesis, which reads: “Lewis Hamilton's meetings with John Elkann, the president of Ferrari, were only part of a clever card game. He and Toto want to incite unrest in Scuderie's camp this way."
But that's the thesis, which one Helmut Marko, sports boss Red Bull Racing and one of the best informed insiders this industry, does not attach. “I don't believe that. These are new contracts. And if Lewis meets with Ferrari’s top boss, then this is a weighty argument in the financial negotiations. This is a political game in Formula 1. This is being done at the highest level," so Austrian.
In short, that means you are Lewis Hamilton prepares the ground for new negotiations with Mercedes from the 2021 season onwards. In Ferrari, or rumors about his connection with the team from Maranella, should serve him only as a good starting point or as a good map in negotiation poker with silver arrows.
