Lewis Hamilton will experience a transition this year where Mercedes won’t want to sh💞are information with their outgoing driver, Martin Brundle believes.

Hamilton will spend one final season at Mercedes - the team where he has won six of his joint-record seven F1 champions🌞hips - before going to Ferrari in 2025.

Toto Wolff’s team will eventually slow down the feed of knowledge to Ham🍷ilton as his days at Merce🥃des become numbered, Brundle warned.

“You’ve got this transition point where Lewis will stop being inꦚvited to meetings,” the Sky Sports💎 expert said.

“He won’t un😼derstand what’s going on with development of the car and in the simu💎lator.

“The team consc♎iously, subcon꧟sciously, will favour George.

“They have got to.”

Mercedes team 🦄principal Wolff has alrea🔯dy insisted that he does worry about Hamilton’s ‘integrity’ in terms of taking secrets to Ferrari next year.

Asked what type of knowledge Hamilton could feasibly bring with him to Italy, Brundle expl🦹ained: “Processes, philosophies, how the car𓆉 works, what he likes, how he likes to sit, what he needs from a car to maximise his talent.

“He’s got to i💧ntegrate. That’s hard. He won’t speak the language ♈or know the team like Charles Leclerc does.

“You need to find out where all thꦬe buttons are to♓ press.

“That’s wh🍌y Lewis, I think, will want to try ꦚto take a few people with him.

“But there will be non-compete clauses🌌 so he can’t do that.

“You want𝐆 to takღe some of your own gang with you, when you go. So you can hit the ground running.”

Brundle added about Hamilton: “I have no doubt that he will give it everythin💎g he’s got until the last lap of the last race.

“If everybody is smart - and I thi🐠nk they are - they will see ꧟it as a farewell tour.

“They’ll wish him farewell then hope h🎶e lꦆoses in a  Ferrari!”

Simon Lazenby was aske𝕴d about the possible awkwardness of Hamilton spending an entire year at💧 Mercedes with everybody knowing he is Ferrari-bound.

“The thing with Lewis, it’s an exceptional🦩 case,” Lazenby sa𒊎id. “It’s Lewis!

“He brou🐟ght ev🐠erything to Mercedes. They kind of do owe him.

“I think they owe him ev✅erything. They probably owe him the respect to treat him like the ෴great champion that he is, for the time that he’s at Mercedes.

“I don’t think it will be emotional. He’ll get ♌through the sea🏅son.

“He’ll know early on if he’s got a car capable of competing for the champio෴nship.

“If he does? They’ll♛ have to rally around whoever is the best driver.”