Wolff unclear over Mercedes future of key Hamilton ally

The notorious driver-engineer organization is entering its last year at Mercedes – but will it proceed into 2025 at Ferrari?

Mercedes Group Vital Toto Wolff has uncovered talks will be held within the coming months to choose end of the of Lewis Hamilton’s race build Dwindle Bonnington.

Bonnington has been Hamilton’s senior race build since he joined the group in 2013, with the matching winning 82 Grands Prix and six titles to ended up the foremost effective driver-engineer partnership of all time.

The long-serving design, who moreover worked with Michael Schumacher at the Silver Bolts, is one of the foremost conspicuous voices on the group radio more often than not for his “Pound time” or “Get in there, Lewis!” messages – or being subject to complaint from Hamilton when times are difficult.

Bonnington’s Mercedes future
Inquired by RacingNews365 if there had been any talks over Bonnington’s future with the group, Wolff clarified:
“I think that this is often a talk which everybody has to have within the months to come.

“I’ve as of now talked with Bono and when I told him, he said:
‘Is it April 1st?’

“It is something which we are going ought to talk about within the future, in a few of months.”

Wolff moreover included how he never totally discounted the chance of Hamilton clearing out but accepted the seven-time winner would stay put.

“Each race driver dreams approximately being in a ruddy in general, within the ruddy car and we’ve talked about it numerous times some time recently, which it would be exciting to do it one day,” he said.

“But over the a long time, we came to the conclusion that remaining at Mercedes and wrapping up the bequest here is something that one can be proud of, but I never disregarded the plausibility of alter, whether it was Ferrari or another group.

“The fact didn’t astonish me, but the timing, I can get it where [Lewis] is coming from [in reporting his flight so early], which was to secure the team’s interface going forward.”

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