Fred Vasseur has urged his Ferrari team to keep their feet on the ground despite the “excitement” of Lewis Hamilton officially joining the Italian oufit. After 12 years with Mercedes, seven-time F1 world champion Hamilton officially joined the Scuderia on 1 January ahead of the 2025 season.

Lewis Hamilton officially became a Ferrari F1 employee on January 1 to much fanfare on social media, though Frederic Vasseur is already calling for focus on the task at hand

Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has acknowledged the "excitement" of Lewis Hamilton's arrival at the team, as he officially became a Ferrari driver on January 1, 2025. However, Vasseur asked his staff to remain focused on the job from day two to prepare for the season that lies ahead to secure a better position on the grid than it finished in the previous year.

British driver Lewis Hamilton is officially a Ferrari F1 driver, having left Mercedes – and he has already taken to social media. Seven-time Formula One champion Hamilton, 39, has formally left Mercedes after 12 years as one of the team’s drivers after his contract expired on December 31, 2024.

Hamilton arrives in Maranello with a fire in his stomach and a clear objective: win a record-breaking eighth Drivers’ Championship title and bring the glory days back to the Tifosi. However, while his race pace remains strong, many have doubted Fred Vasseur’s decision to bring the Brit to Italy for the 2025 campaign.

Lewis Hamilton has been labelled the greatest Formula 1 driver of all time ahead of his upcoming move to Ferrari. The seven-time world champion will line up alongside Charles Leclerc at the Scuderia next season having bid farewell to Mercedes at the 2024 finale in Abu Dhabi.

The turn of the new year saw Lewis Hamilton make his long-awaited move to Ferrari official, and he marked the occasion with a couple of brief posts on social media. The seven-time World Champion perhaps nodded to what’s coming next while posting an Instagram story wearing a red jacket,