From the moment when Lewis Hamilton sat down on the sofa in the front room of Toto Wolff’s house in Oxford in late January, to tell his boss he was leaving for Ferrari at the end of the season, he knew it was going to be an emotionally difficult year. As Hamilton would remark when the curtain finally came down on it all in Abu Dhabi, it was akin to telling your spouse you wanted a divorce, but then having to live together in the same house for a whole year.
At times in 2024 you could sense the awkwardness of it all. The loneliness of being the person about to walk out the door mixed with paranoia about not having the kind of full support that had been there in the past.
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Jonathan Noble
Formula 1
Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes
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