Seven-time Formulation 1 champion Lewis Hamilton’s journey again from Interlagos might have been an ungainly one after Mercedes group principal Toto Wolff revealed that the Ferrari driver could be travelling with the newly topped constructors’ champions.
Mercedes secured its ninth constructors’ title on the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday, with George Russell and Kimi Antonelli ending fourth and fifth, respectively, to place the group out of Ferrari’s attain with three races remaining within the season. Hamilton, who began from the again after an influence unit penalty, recovered to ninth.
Requested after the race the place the celebration could be, Wolff stated the celebrations must wait till the group had acquired again to the UK.
“When it comes to the celebration, I do not know but. It is one other flight, one other in a single day flight. George goes to be on that in a single day flight, so possibly we’ll have a drink. A constructors’ drink,” Wolff defined to the media.
“For the nice and the dangerous. We’ll take Lewis additionally, so we’ll see. Perhaps he wants one for the dangerous. After which we’ll determine what we do in regards to the celebration coming again to the UK.”
Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari, George Russell, Mercedes
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Hamilton spent 12 seasons at Mercedes earlier than he moved to Ferrari in 2025. Throughout his time with the Brackley outfit, he secured six of his seven championships and helped the group safe eight consecutive constructors’ championships from 2014 to 2021.
“Properly completed to Mercedes for successful the constructors’ championship and the unbelievable yr they’ve had total. Actually deserved,” Hamilton wrote in an Instagram publish following the race weekend in São Paulo.
Hamilton continues to be within the combat for second within the drivers’ championship. Pink Bull’s Max Verstappen at the moment sits second with 279 factors. Russell follows in third with 262 factors and Hamilton is fourth with 261 factors. Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris are fifth and sixth with 249 and 246 factors, respectively.
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