Originally Posted by
patrese86
Irrespective of Newey joining Ferrari....potentially that is...what do we think about Lewis currently? For me he's second best to George as things stand. Is that because he's demoralised at Mercedes? Does he not have the car as he likes? Much like Max he likes a pointy front end.
If Lewis is successful that means Ferrari are successful and that must be more paramount than anything.
To answer your question, I believe that Ferrari never got Lewis to be a leader to Ferrari in terms of how he was in Merc. That role is reserved and well earned by Charles.
It was a purely tactical move by Ferrari (to which actually I agree) in a game of chess. They want to get people that this move may attract, sell merchandize, have a high profile ambassador , turn the lights to Ferrari for two years further than what already is.
Is he going to being points ? No doubt.
Is he going to cause issues? I really doubt it because he knows that this is not Merc, not even McLaren, no more RD, no more Toto.
This is not "his team" anymore.
Will he get his 8th? No. Why? Because simply he cannot compete with Charles, Charles is simply faster.
And in the mean time, there's time to (if all go well) prepare Bearman, and if not, there's always someone that will be more than happy to join Ferrari when Lewis' contract is done. Just like Lewis was.
Noone can escape the allure of the Maranello team.
"If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari" - Gilles Villeneuve
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