{"id":7180,"date":"2025-01-10T09:30:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T09:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=7180"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:30:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T09:30:43","slug":"mercedes-makes-groundbreaking-announcement-just-days-lewis-hamilton-officially-joined-ferrari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=7180","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes makes ‘groundbreaking’ announcement just days after Lewis Hamilton officially joined Ferrari."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Mercedes have made a ‘groundbreaking’ announcement days after Lewis Hamilton officially left the team to join Ferrari.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hamilton signed what\u00a0Ferrari\u00a0described only as a ‘multi-year contract’ last February, with the deal kicking in from 2025 onwards.<\/p>\n

The seven-time world champion will team up with\u00a0Charles Leclerc\u00a0at the Scuderia, and is set to have his first experience of driving an old-spec Ferrari F1 car this month before official testing begins in February.<\/p>\n

The Brit has now ended an 11-year stint with the Mercedes team, although his involvement with Mercedes as a manufacturer in general dates back to 1998 when the German company was an engine supplier for McLaren, and thus supported\u00a0Hamilton\u00a0with his career after he joined the McLaren and Mercedes-Benz Young Driver Programme.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old – who celebrated the age milestone on Tuesday – has yet to comment on the move since his initial statement upon signing for Ferrari last year.<\/p>\n

He has, however,\u00a0changed his Instagram profile photo\u00a0to show him racing in a red helmet during his karting days.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Kimi Antonelli has also been getting used to life at Mercedes as Hamilton’s replacement for 2025.<\/p>\n

And the German manufacturer have now made a major announcement ahead of the season getting underway.<\/p>\n

Hamilton’s move to Ferrari could see several brands previously associated with Mercedes make the view to the Scuderia, with Tommy Hilfiger among the brands linked with the Italian team.<\/p>\n

However, Mercedes have acted well in advance to plug at least one of those gaps by announcing a ‘groundbreaking’ deal with Adidas.<\/p>\n

\n
\"George<\/div>\n

George Russell will lead the Mercedes team in 2025 (Image: Getty)<\/cite><\/div>\n

In\u00a0a press release, Mercedes say that Adidas will provide a ‘complete range’ of clothes and individual items based on the requirements of each team member.<\/p>\n

The Silver Arrows plan to unveil the first line of products next month.<\/p>\n

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Mercedes have made a ‘groundbreaking’ announcement days after Lewis Hamilton officially left the team to join Ferrari. Hamilton signed what\u00a0Ferrari\u00a0described only as a ‘multi-year contract’ last February, with the deal kicking in from 2025 onwards. The seven-time world champion will team up with\u00a0Charles Leclerc\u00a0at the Scuderia, and is set to have his first experience of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-f1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1.webp",1440,810,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1-300x169.webp",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1-768x432.webp",768,432,true],"large":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1-1024x576.webp",1024,576,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1.webp",1440,810,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1.webp",1440,810,false],"jnews-360x180":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1-360x180.webp",360,180,true],"jnews-750x375":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1-750x375.webp",750,375,true],"jnews-1140x570":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1-1140x570.webp",1140,570,true],"jnews-120x86":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1-120x86.webp",120,86,true],"jnews-350x250":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1-350x250.webp",350,250,true],"jnews-750x536":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1-750x536.webp",750,536,true],"jnews-1140x815":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1-1140x810.webp",1140,810,true],"jnews-360x504":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1-360x504.webp",360,504,true],"jnews-75x75":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1-75x75.webp",75,75,true],"jnews-350x350":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1-350x350.webp",350,350,true],"jnews-featured-750":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1-750x422.webp",750,422,true],"jnews-featured-1140":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1-1140x641.webp",1140,641,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Newssoccer","author_link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Blog<\/a> F1<\/a>","tag_info":"F1","comment_count":"0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/resize-1.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7183,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions\/7183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}