F1 champion Lewis Hamilton reveals stunning Mercedes RETURN plans

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Hamilton reveals stunning Mercedes RETURN plans

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Sheona Mountford F1 Journalist

Motorsport journalist working in F1 since 2024.

Tuesday 31 December 2024 08:27

Lewis Hamilton has revealed his stunning plans to return to Mercedes following his 2024 exit.

The seven-time world champion bid farewell to Mercedes at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, as he prepares to move to Ferrari in 2025.

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Not only has Hamilton enjoyed more than a decade of championship-defining success with the team, but he also leaves behind an incredible legacy in regards to his work with diversity and inclusion.

During his time at Mercedes, Hamilton founded charitable foundation Mission 44, which is aimed at aiding underrepresented groups in education and acquiring roles in motorsport, whilst also ensuring this work translated over into the F1 team.

Lewis Hamilton has worked on diversity and inclusion at Mercedes

Lewis Hamilton leaves behind an incredible legacy at Mercedes

Will Hamilton’s relationship with Mercedes continue?

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has recently stated that the team’s commitment to diversity, which was spearheaded by Hamilton, will continue after his exit.

The champion has also stated that he will return to the team to check that there is still progress in this area, despite making his move to a rival team.

"I think the thing that I’m most proud of, when I think about what I leave behind, I hope in a positive way, is the work that we’ve done with diversity inclusion," he told media at the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

"That’s been something I’m most proud of, from the first moments sitting down with Toto, for him being open-minded, for the whole team being open-minded, all the team members going through diversity inclusion training, actually creating the diversity team.

"We did ignite, actually really put the money where their mouth is and invested, and we have a very, very diverse team now, which is something that I’m really grateful to have been a part of.

"When I sit with Toto, I’m like, ‘when I leave, there’s going to be no one in the room that’s going to have these difficult conversations with you’, because I am the one that, I was like, ‘I hope that you continue that on’, and he said he will, so I’ll come by every now and then just to make sure that that continues on."

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