This year 2024 will remain that of big announcements that changed their career into a dream. Lewis Hamilton will race for Ferrari in 2025. And this news was communicated at the start of the 2024 Formula 1 season. A project thought up since childhood for the seven-time world champion according to Frédéric Vasseur. It was the same with Kylian Mbappé for Real Madrid.
It was in 2007 that Lewis Hamilton debuted in Formula 1 chez McLaren. The British driver wrote his legend in the premier discipline of motor racing within the English team where he won his first world champion title in 2008. But it is above all with the Silver Arrow of Mercedes that he built his legacy with six more world championships. Which made it equal in 2020 the results of Michael Schumacheruntil now the only record holder. One year later, in December 2021, Hamilton was on the verge of being crowned an eighth time in Abu Dhabi Grand Prixbut was beaten by Max Verstappen in the final turns of the circuit Yas Marina.
“Ferrari? It was a Lewis project anchored in his memory from a very young age.
Lewis Hamilton left Mercedes after 11 seasons to live a childhood dream starting in winter 2025 at Ferrari. To this day, the Englishman holds the record for pole positions (104), podiums (201) and victories (105) in the history of the Formula 1. Within the ScuderiaHamilton intends to continue to write the lines of his XXL prize list during the year of his 40th birthday. The perfect moment to live a dream that had driven him since childhood according to his new boss.
“It’s always easier to talk to someone you know. Starting discussions and negotiations were much easier. It was a project by Lewis (editor's note Hamilton) anchored in his memory since he was little. He decided to come to Ferrari one day. For once, the planets aligned between our availability and his contract.” confided Frédéric Vasseur, Team Principal and general director of Ferrarihas Canal+.
Mbappé on Real Madrid: “I am so happy and proud to join the club of my dreams”
In recent months, Lewis Hamilton was not the only world-renowned athlete to change his habits dating back several years to live his dream. On June 3, Kylian Mbappé announced on social networks the beginning of his childhood dream: defending the merengue colors of Real Madrid. The top scorer in the history of PSGwith his 256 goals in seven seasons, signed a five-year contract with White House. The opportunity for the captain of theFrench team to share indescribable happiness.
“A dream come true. I am so happy and proud to join the club of my dreams: Real Madrid. No one can understand how excited I am right now. I look forward to seeing you, madridistas, and thank you for your incredible support. ¡Hala Madrid! “.
“If I hadn’t been able to go to Real, I would have stayed at PSG all my life”
More recently, during an interview with beIN SPORTS pour beUNITED, Kylian Mbappé looked back on his good years PSG by assuring that he would have stayed there for life if his dream of playing Real Madrid had not taken over the rest. “ I always said it was the biggest club in France and one of the best in the world. I just left him to go to the biggest club in the world. I always said that it was the only club for which I would have left PSG. If I hadn't been able to go to Real, I would have stayed at PSG all my life. I had this dream of playing there and I’m very happy with that.”
Lewis Hamilton et Kylian Mbappé have therefore been driven by this dream dating back to childhood throughout their career. In this year 2024, said dream came true and was announced at Ferrari for the seven-time champion of Formula 1 and at Real Madrid for the world champion.
