Lewis Hamilton will first test a Ferrari F1 car early next year, with the prospect of him driving at the 2024 post-season test in Abu Dhabi a non-starter. Seven-time F1 world champion will leave Mercedes after 12 years at the Silver Arrows at the end of the season and only has three races left before he moves to the Scuderia in 2025.

Hamilton is set to finish his F1 career with Ferrari after agreeing a multi-year deal. With the shock switch announced before the start of the 2024 campaign, the slow countdown towards the end of the seven-time world champion's Silver Arrows stint is almost complete.

Is Charles Leclerc worried about the arrival of multi-champion Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari? Absolutely not, I see it much more as an opportunity." Leclerc says in an interview with the

Ferrari reserve driver Robert Shwartzman has confirmed that he is to cut ties with the team ahead of Lewis Hamilton’s F1 2025 arrival. Shwartzman was released by Ferrari‘s junior academy in 2023 but has continued to serve as the team’s reserve driver,

The seven-time world champion raised doubts over his immediate future with a post-race radio message in Brazil.