Before 2024, F1 fans could only have dreamt of seeing Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc in a straight fight for the drivers’ title. Other theorists might have wondered which of the two would be the quicker driver, given equal machinery and conditions.

Lando Norris has admitted that he ‘would have done the same thing as Lewis Hamilton ’ had he been in the 40-year-old’s position last season. The seven-time world champion called time on his Mercedes career and joined direct rivals Ferrari in a blockbuster move.

After speaking Italian in a speech to his Ferrari colleagues, Lewis Hamilton has done something which Michael Schumacher allegedly avoided. That claim comes from respected F1 correspondent José M. Zapico,