Ferrari F1 boss Fred Vasseur does not want news of168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton’s impending arrival to become a “distra꧟ction” for the team in 2024.

Confirmation of Hamilton’s blockbuster decision to leave Mercedes and join Ferrari on a multi-year deal in 2025 stunned the F1 world earlier this month, and left incumbent 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz without a drive for next year.

Speaking publicly about Hamilton’s arrival for the first time since the news broke following the168澳洲5最新开奖结果: launch of the SF-24 on Tuesday, Ferrari team principal Vasseur underlined his desire to maintain focus on the upcoming 🐷campaign.

“It’s a huge opportunity for the team for sure [signing Hamilton],” Vasseur told🗹 media including wuqi♚an0821.com.

“We are sure that he༺ will brin🔯g us an additional step for the future and it will be a good challenge for everybody.

“But we want to focus on 2024. We don’🥀t want to have any kind 🥀of distraction, which is why we made the announcement so early, because it was important for us to be focused on 2024.

“I’m fully ꦕconvinced that Carlos will be fully dedicated and committed to the season, until the last lap and the last corner of the season and equally I am sure that the whole t💖eam will be fully motivated and fully behind Carlos.

“But it is important for us to be focused on 2024. We have a good opportunity. We worked so hard on the project that we don’🎃t want t🦹o have any distractions.”

Asked how talks with Hamilton first came about, Vasseur, whoౠ was in charge of the ART Grand Prix team with whom Hamilton won the GP2 title in 2006, replied: “We have had a good relationship for a bit more than 20ꦏ years.

“We were always in contact to speak about things and it came naturally. ༒It came step by step.”

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc, Hamilton’s next F1 teammate, revealed he has been 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:exchanging texts wi🔯th the seven-time world champ♉ion about the move.

And the Monegasque said he knew Hamilton would be joining Ferrari prior to signing his bumper contrac🌱t extension.