Hamilton has Ferrari fans dreaming while F1 waits for the movie

London: Lewis Hamilton won an eighth record title of Formula one in the Red Monkey of Ferrari at the age of 40 would be a direct story to Hollywood, whose movie Brad Pitt is scheduled to run on the movie screens in June.

The Briton, a co -producer of the film directed by Joseph Kosinski of fame “Top Gun: Maverick”, has turned on fans while seeking to bring a championship to Maranello for the first time since 2008.

The opening of Sunday’s season in Melbourne will be Hamilton’s first race for the Italian glamor team, after winning its seven titles with McLaren and Mercedes, and the level of emotion is already out of the scale.

A fan cut a tree to see the winner of the 105 -time race that drives for the first time on the Ferrari’s Fioran test.

An Instagram post on his first day in the factory, with Hamilton standing with an intelligent black suit and coat next to a Ferrari F40 car, attracted 5.7 million likes 39 million followers.

“Oh, my God, he would be the king of all kings,” said the 1978 world champion Mario Andretti to Time magazine when asked about the possibility that the British was successful in what seems like an unlikely search.

Hamilton appeared in the iconic red embroidered roof, without standing shirt with a white suit in front of a black breeding stallion.

“The old man is a mental state,” he told the magazine, a line that he could have taken from Pitt, 61, who plays a 40 -year -old driver. “Of course, your body ages. But I’m never going to be an old man.”

The fairy tale script is written, but it could easily be torn and recast.

Difficult task

The task, to ensure a title that felt stolen, when a controversial change in the security car procedure at the end of 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix gave Max Verstappen of Red Bull a first title, it will be as hard as any Hamilton has faced.

The teammate Charles Leclerc, a protégé of Ferrari and winner of the eight -time race he has driven for the team since 2019 and has been very fast in a single round, will imagine its possibilities if the car has title potential.

McLaren are the champions of reigning builders and the compatriot of Hamilton, Lando Norris, runner -up of Verstappen last season with four victories, is installed as the favorite of the betting corridors.

The Oscar Piestri Australian, Norris’s teammate, is another contender in what could be one of the closest seasons, as well as the last one before the important changes of the rules and the beginning of a new engine era in 2026.

Some potentially predict more winners than the seven different pilots and four teams that enjoyed the loot in 2024, with some teams ready to finish early development and focus next year.

Then he is Verstappen, who will soon become a father for the first time and offer to join Ferrari Great and the seven -time world champion Michael Schumacher as the second pilot to win five titles in a row.

“If the car is up to the work,” the former Supreme of F1 Bernie Ecclestone told Reuters.

Verstappen, who has led the championship for more than 1,000 days since May 2022, has a new teammate in the New Zealand Liam Lawson, promoted after 11 racing races of racing bulls of Equipment Hermanos to replace Sergio Perez Mexican of Lower Performance.

Lawson is the most experienced group of six that starts a season for the first time, with the Frenchman Isack Hadjar taking the unemployed seat in Racing Bulls.

The British Oliver Bearman is in Haas, the Brazilian F2 champion Gabriel Bortoleto with Sauber, Jack Doohan Australian in Alpine and Andrea Kimi Antonelli Italian entering the huge Hamilton shoes in Mercedes.

How he is going to those of 18 years with George Russell will be another story of the season, as well as the impact of designer’s star designer Adrian Newey in Aston Martin from his move from Red Bull.

For the first time since 1989, there is no Finn in the grid, with Valtteri Bottas now Mercedes reserve, but Bortoleto says that Brazil has a full -time driver for the first time since Felipe Massa retired in 2017.