Lewis Hamilton and Pete Bonnington, the most successful driver/engineer partnership in F1 history, comes to an end after 2024...
Pete Bonnington’s commitment to remain with Mercedes isn’t a surprising one and puts to bed any fairytale of continuing his partnership with Lewis Hamilton .
But that will all come to a definitive end after this season. With Hamilton having made the decision to part ways with Brackley to make the switch to Ferrari that most drivers dream of at some point in their career, the big question from the moment of that call was whether Bonnington would make the switch with him.
“Sometimes we get frustrated with each other. It’s like a marriage, I guess, but we work it out and we keep pushing. At that point, Wolff explained there would be many discussions to be had to figure out what the future held for Bonnington – might Hamilton prove persuasive, or would Mercedes be particularly eager to hold onto a man with experience of working with three World Champions in 15 years?
But, with the possibility – however slim – of a switch to Ferrari lurking, Bonnington has leveraged the situation in his favour. Even if he never had any intention whatsoever of leaving Mercedes, why not make use of the speculation?
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