168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton has chosen to exercise a break clause in his Mercedes F1 contract in order to seal a shock ℱmove to Ferrari.

Th🐓e seven-time world champion only signed a new two𒉰-year extension to remain with Mercedes last summer, but his contract contained a break clause after one year.

Hamilton has opted to take up that exit option in order to complete a bombshell switch 🔥🀅to Ferrari from the 2025 season.

The 39-year-old Briton has agreed a deal to become 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc’s teammate, replacing 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz.

Mercedes staff were inform𒁏ed about Hamilton’s decision in a meeting with team prin🅠cipal Toto Wolff on Thursday afternoon.

Hamilton’s decision to join Ferrari is arguably the biggest driver mℱove of the 21st century, seeing F1’s most decorated driver partner with the sport’s most famous and successful team.

Merced🐭es and Ferrari confirmed the d🉐eal on Thursday evening. 

Ferrari🐷 president John Elkann is understood to have been the driving force 🍸behind the move to lure Hamilton away from Mercedes.

“My understandi🌊ng is that this courtship [between Ferrari and Hamilton] has been going on for some months,” Sky Sports F1 𒁃reporter Craig Slater said on Thursday. 

"It’s not a sudden thin💝g. John Elkann, the president and a very heavy-hitter, is very much at the centre 🐓of it and the driving force.

“Team principal Fred Vasseur is someone Lewis knows from the jun♌ior days so there’s no friction there.

“Itꦉ’s not like the chairman has signed someone over the manager’s bac♏k, that you sometimes get in football! This isn’t like that.”