He\u2019s throwing health caution to the wind in order to commemorate his much ballyhooed move from Mercedes, where he won six of his seven F1 driver titles, to the venerated Scuderia Ferrari HP race team: a photo of himself positioned in front of an actual black horse standing on his hind legs, mimicking the Italian automaker\u2019s famous logo. Like Hamilton, Aroma\u2014who is retired but still does the occasional photo shoot\u2014has an impressive resume, including appearances in Robin Hood and Maleficent, ads for Herm\u00e8s and Burberry, and a Dua Lipa<\/a> video; he is joined by Theo, a stunt horse you might recognize from Bridgerton, among other things. \u201cThis is going to be such an iconic picture,\u201d says Hamilton while trying on outfits for the shoot. \u201cSuper timeless.\u201d<\/p>\n Buy a copy of the Lewis Hamilton cover here<\/a><\/p>\n That depends, of course, on what comes after. At 40, Hamilton is aiming to not only win a record eighth F1 driver title\u2014cementing his status as the greatest F1 driver to ever live and ending the longest-ever championship drought for the most storied race team on the planet\u2014but also fulfill a lifelong dream. His move to Ferrari, announced before the 2024 season, was shocking worldwide front-page news: he had suited up for Mercedes for more than a decade, helped build a more diverse workforce there, and hoped to someday acquire an ownership stake in the team. It seemed he would ride into the sunset with the Silver Arrows.<\/p>\n Hamilton had other ideas. \u201cYou can\u2019t stand still for too long,\u201d Hamilton tells TIME, in his first in-depth interview about his decision to leave Mercedes for Ferrari. \u201cI needed to throw myself into something uncomfortable again. Honestly, I thought all my firsts were done. Your first car, your first crash, your first date, first day of school. The excitement I got by the idea of, \u2018This is my first time in the red suit, the first time in the Ferrari.\u2019 Wow. Honestly, I\u2019ve never been so excited.\u201d<\/p>\n During the 2024 F1 season, Hamilton, out of respect for Mercedes\u2014with whom he was still under contract and racing\u2014didn\u2019t talk much about the switch. The situation was awkward and unprecedented. (Picture LeBron James<\/a> suiting up for the Los Angeles Lakers knowing he\u2019d be playing the following year for a rival, like the Boston Celtics. Exactly. It would never happen.) All sides appear to have handled it as professionally as possible: Hamilton ended a 945-day losing streak by winning his hometown race, at Silverstone in Britain, in July before winning again in Belgium three weeks later. Meanwhile Carlos Sainz, the Ferrari driver whom Hamilton is replacing this year, helped Scuderia finish second in the constructor, or team, standings, just a few points behind 2024 champion McLaren.<\/p>\n Hamilton\u2019s road to the title record won\u2019t be easy. Some critics have questioned Ferrari\u2019s strategy of signing an aging driver, whose best days could very well be in the rearview. They\u2019ve wondered whether Ferrari\u2019s more interested in marketing than winning\u2014Hamilton is still F1\u2019s most popular driver, by a mile, as well as an internationally known cultural figure with a hand in fashion, film, and business. (He\u2019s co-chairing the Met Gala in May alongside Colman Domingo<\/a>, Pharrell Williams, A$AP Rocky, and Anna Wintour; LeBron James is honorary chair.) Plus, a slew of younger drivers like reigning four-time champion Red Bull\u2019s Max Verstappen<\/a>, 27; McLaren\u2019s Lando Norris, 25; and Hamilton\u2019s new Ferrari teammate, Charles LeClerc, 27, could keep him off the top of the podium.<\/p>\n \u201cThe old man is a state of mind,\u201d says Hamilton. \u201cOf course your body ages. But I\u2019m never going to be an old man.\u201d<\/p>\n The 2025 F1 campaign, which kicks off in Australia on March 16, comes laced with intrigue. Hamilton sits at the epicenter. Ferrari is religion in Italy; when the team wins an F1 race, the bells of the Church of St. Blaise in Maranello, the small city near Bologna that houses Ferrari headquarters, ring in celebration. So Hamilton\u2019s quest to end Ferrari\u2019s agony, while breaking the individual title record set by Michael Schumacher<\/a>\u2014who won five straight titles with Ferrari from 2000 to 2004\u2014will be appointment theater. Meanwhile, Hamilton is co-producing, along with Jerry Bruckheimer and others, an F1 movie, aptly called F1, that is almost literally a Brad Pitt vehicle. The film, which comes out in June, plus a competitive race for the championship, could deliver a jolt to the sport\u2019s popularity, especially in the U.S., where F1 has boomed<\/a> but flattened out a bit, given Verstappen\u2019s predictable dominance.<\/p>\n A Hamilton championship in red, in the twilight of his racing life, would be nothing less than one of the greatest mic-drop moments in sports history. \u201cI don\u2019t know if I can find an adjective to describe that,\u201d says American racing legend Mario Andretti, the 1978 F1 champion who raced for Ferrari in the early \u201970s. \u201cNothing is missing in his career. But oh man, how better can you describe your career after that? Oh my God, he\u2019d be the king of all kings.\u201d<\/p>\n Two weeks before the stallion photo shoot, Hamilton is striking golf balls into a simulator at an indoor club on the banks of the Thames. (He has a pronounced slice.) He doesn\u2019t golf much these days, but Hamilton being Hamilton\u2014a man who has taken full advantage of this sport\u2019s jet-setting ways to become one of the world\u2019s most prominent collectors of influential people\u2014he last played a round with actor Tom Holland, a.k.a. Spider-Man. His other golf partners have included Samuel L. Jackson and Kelly Slater, the surfing GOAT. He was once supposed to play with another GOAT, Michael Jordan, but when Hamilton got to the course, he says, Jordan \u201cdidn\u2019t end up being there.\u201d<\/p>\n As we\u2019re taking swings, I ask Hamilton if he\u2019s checked out TGL, the indoor golf competition founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy that just launched its first season in the U.S. He hasn\u2019t. I explain some of the particulars\u2014it\u2019s a team league, ESPN is showing it on weeknights\u2014before it sounds familiar. But Hamilton is involved with so many projects\u2014movies, art, fashion lines, the Denver Broncos, a pet-food company, a plant-based burger chain with Leonardo DiCaprio\u2014that he can\u2019t quite remember whether he poured some money into this new outfit. \u201cI might have,\u201d he says, with a laugh. (He did.)<\/p>\n Hamilton takes a break from golf, reclines on a couch, and orders a latte before sharing the story of how he arrived at this moment. It began a long time ago, when he was a kid growing up in public housing north of London. His first Ferrari memories have stuck with him. He would drive Schumacher\u2019s car in racing video games. The Ferrari replica featured in Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off\u2014the 1961 250 GT California Spyder\u2014is still, to this day, Hamilton\u2019s favorite. \u201cThat\u2019s the ultimate retirement car,\u201d he says. \u201cI can just see myself with Roscoe, him with a scarf and goggles in the seat next to me, driving down the PCH.\u201d (Roscoe, Hamilton\u2019s pet bulldog\u2014who, like his owner, is vegan\u2014has an Instagram account with 1.1\u00a0million followers.)<\/p>\n McLaren signed Hamilton to a driver\u2019s deal in 1998, when he was 13. In 2006, Hamilton won the championship in what is now known as Formula Two. \u201cI did have the bit of red on my helmet,\u201d he says. During that F2 season, and the one prior in F3, Hamilton raced for team principal Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Vasseur, whose management style and ability to recruit top engineering talent to his lower-level operation impressed the young driver. Hamilton figured Vasseur would be a F1 leader one day.<\/p>\n Hamilton won his first F1 championship in 2008, his second season with McLaren. He competed there for four more seasons before jumping, in 2013, to Mercedes, a middling team that Hamilton lifted to championship heights. Through it all, Hamilton maintained cordial relations with Ferrari leadership. He\u2019d walk past the Ferrari garage at races, say \u201cciao\u201d to the mechanics, and hear them say \u201cvieni Ferrari\u201d (come to Ferrari). Around 2018, Hamilton met with Ferrari chairman John Elkann. Both sides expressed a desire to see Hamilton in red. But by the end of the 2020 season, Hamilton had four straight championships with Mercedes. He had no reason to jump ship. \u201cIf I\u2019m really honest, I had accepted the fact that I\u2019m probably not going to drive for Ferrari,\u201d says Hamilton. \u201cI was OK with that.\u201d<\/p>\n After the 2021 season, Hamilton nearly walked away from racing. He\u2014and millions of his fans\u2014felt his record eighth driver title was stolen from him, when during the final race of the year, in Abu Dhabi, an official\u2019s controversial decision allowed Verstappen to overtake Hamilton in the last lap and clinch his first title. Hamilton ultimately refused to quit without a fight, but he failed to win a single race as Verstappen cruised to another pair of championships. Hamilton signed a two-year extension with Mercedes in the summer of 2023, but the deal allowed him an option to leave after one year.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, true to Hamilton\u2019s prediction, his de facto coach in the minors, Vasseur, took over an F1 team in 2016. Before the 2023 season, he was hired for a new team-principal gig\u2014at Ferrari. Vasseur got wind of the loophole in Hamilton\u2019s new deal\u2014\u201cHe told me at one stage,\u201d says Vasseur. \u201cGood news\u201d\u2014and aimed to sign an agreement with Hamilton before the 2024 season. He wanted his drivers under contract last year, LeClerc and Sainz, to be free of whispers regarding their status. So while Hamilton was at his home in Colorado in December 2023, he got a call from Vasseur asking him to join Ferrari starting in 2025. \u201cI remember getting off the phone and, like, almost shaking,\u201d says Hamilton, who\u2019s now almost shaking while recalling the moment. \u201cI was like, Oh God!\u201d<\/p>\n He told a friend who was with him about the call; they both sat in silence on a bathroom floor in shock. \u201cI was like, Holy sh-t,\u201d says Hamilton. \u201cI literally just signed with Mercedes.\u201d Breaking up with a team that felt like family was far from a no-brainer. And he didn\u2019t have much time to decide. \u201cIt was a lot to take in, and my emotions were really high,\u201d says Hamilton. \u201cSo I honestly had to go for a walk.\u201d He left the house for an hour to decompress.<\/p>\n Hamilton then spent a few days meditating. He was leaning toward Ferrari. \u201cMy eyes felt really calm and present,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is the right thing for me.\u201d When he\u2019d switched from McLaren to Mercedes all those years ago, he solicited too much advice. Here, he confided in just a few family members and trusted friends. \u201cOne cannot discount the Ferrari influence on the sport, especially through the eyes of a child,\u201d says Mellody Hobson, co-CEO of Ariel Investments and the former chair of the Starbucks board, who\u2019s very close to Hamilton. During negotiations, after every phone call with Ferrari, he\u2019d jump around like a little kid.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re in a time of reimagining the future, reimagining what really dreaming is about,\u201d says Hamilton. \u201cI\u2019m going to Ferrari, man, and that\u2019s the biggest dream.\u201d<\/p>\n Not everyone is so thrilled. The day after he informed Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff of his decision was Hamilton\u2019s annual paintball outing with his race-team mechanics. When he arrived, he was too nervous to get out of his car. \u201cThese are guys I\u2019ve been with so many years,\u201d says Hamilton. He eventually stood on top of a table to address his decision. His squad appeared understanding and supportive. But they let him have it in paintball. \u201cThey lit me up, hard,\u201d says Hamilton. \u201cIt was so painful.\u201d At one point, he was hiding behind a barrel shooting at the other team when he was struck from behind. A member of his own squadron had nailed him. \u201cFreaking guy,\u201d says Hamilton.<\/p>\n They laughed about it afterward and managed to get through the season. \u201cThere is no bad blood,\u201d says Hamilton. \u201cAbsolutely not. We won so many championships.\u201d (Mercedes declined to comment for this story.) Andrea Kimi Antonelli, an 18-year-old from Bologna, will take Hamilton\u2019s place in the Mercedes lineup. \u201cThey have all the ingredients to win world championships, and they will win more world championships,\u201d says Hamilton of Mercedes. \u201cI have no doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n In a book published in November\u2014Inside Mercedes F1: Life in the Fast Lane\u2014Wolff says Hamilton\u2019s move \u201chelps us because it avoids the moment where we need to tell the sport\u2019s most iconic driver that we want to stop\u00a0… We\u2019re in a sport where cognitive sharpness is extremely important, and I believe everyone has a shelf life.\u201d The comments caused a stir, and Wolff clarified that Hamilton is still \u201cvery sharp.\u201d<\/p>\n Hamilton insists Wolff\u2019s remark doesn\u2019t bother him. He points to athletes like Tom Brady<\/a> and LeBron James<\/a> who\u2019ve achieved success into their 40s. \u201cDon\u2019t ever compare me to anybody else,\u201d says Hamilton. \u201cI\u2019m the first and only Black driver that\u2019s ever been in this sport. I\u2019m built different. I\u2019ve been through a lot. I\u2019ve had my own journey. You can\u2019t compare me to another 40-year-old, past or present, Formula One driver in history. Because they are nothing like me. I\u2019m hungry, driven, don\u2019t have a wife and kids. I\u2019m focused on one thing, and that\u2019s winning. That\u2019s my No. 1 priority.\u201d<\/p>\n He also dismisses criticism from the broader racing community. Former F1 team owner Eddie Jordan said in a December podcast that it was \u201cabsolutely suicidal\u201d for Ferrari to drop Sainz from its roster, given the strong working relationship between him and LeClerc. (Sainz will now race for Williams.) \u201cI\u2019ve always welcomed the negativity,\u201d says Hamilton. \u201cI never, ever reply to any of the older, ultimately, white men who have commented on my career and what they think I should be doing. How you show up, how you present yourself, how you perform slowly dispels that.\u201d<\/p>\n Others, including former Ferrari driver Jacky Ickx, have suggested that Ferrari has signed Hamilton primarily for his commercial value. \u201cI think it\u2019s really unfair to Lewis, some of the comments saying, \u2018This is a marketing operation,\u2019\u201d says Elkann, the Ferrari chairman. \u201cTruth said, Lewis doesn\u2019t need that. Ferrari doesn\u2019t need that. What we need to do is win championships and do great things on the track. If that happens, what we can do outside of the track, in some ways, takes care of itself. There\u2019s unlimited possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n The pressure, internal and external, Hamilton faces is immense. No F1 team owns more constructor titles than Ferrari, but they last won in 2008. Ferrari also owns the driver record, with 15, but the last Ferrari driver to win an individual crown was Kimi Raikkonen, in 2007. Ferrari fans are so passionate that they go by their own name, the tifosi. At the Ferrari museum, not far from the team\u2019s 9.3 million-sq.-ft. campus in Maranello, Italy, pilgrims often start crying, or propose marriage, in the Hall of Victories, which showcases the team\u2019s championship cars and more than 100 trophies.<\/p>\n One night in early February, at the Ristorante Montana, which displays a trove of Ferrari memorabilia in its dining room, Andrea Puttini, a seller of building materials from Naples, is outside enjoying a smoke. \u201cIn Italy, we say it\u2019s not important if you speak bad or speak good about something,\u201d says Puttini. \u201cThe importance is that you are talking about this. And Hamilton, just for being here, he lets us talk all over the world about Ferrari.\u201d<\/p>\n Hamilton connected with as many of his new co-workers as possible during his first visit to Maranello in January, shaking hands until his arm was pulsating. \u201cThe amount of ciaos and grazies and piaceres I was saying, aye aye aye,\u201d he says. After his first test run, he went out to greet the supporters lining a bridge that overlooks Ferrari\u2019s private racetrack. A few weeks later, a fan decked out in a red Ferrari shirt and cowboy hat cut down a tree to allow the tifosi a better look at a Hamilton practice.<\/p>\n Hamilton first spotted himself in a Ferrari suit while in, of all places, the loo; he was washing his hands and looked up into the mirror. \u201cI\u2019m in red, I\u2019m like, Whoa!\u201d he says. He paused for a moment to take in the reflection. He liked what he saw. \u201cThe suit looked so good on me,\u201d says Hamilton, laughing. \u201cI\u2019m like, Damn.\u201d When seated in a Ferrari race car for the first time, he closed his eyes when the engine started and smiled. \u201cThe vibrations are different,\u201d he says. He let them course through his body. \u201cYou just wonder how that feels,\u201d Hamilton says. Now he knows. \u201cIt\u2019s a really, really special moment.\u201d<\/p>\n Still, Hamilton is well aware that Italian sports fans have not always been so welcoming of Black athletes like himself. He competed in karting races there in his younger days, starting at around 12, and experienced racist abuse, just as he had in England. He prefers not to go into details. \u201cI don\u2019t want to dwell,\u201d he says. But he\u2019s heard the racist chants directed at Black soccer players in particular. \u201cI\u2019m not going to lie, it definitely crossed my mind when I was thinking about my decision,\u201d he says. \u201cLike in so many things, it\u2019s often such a small group of people that set that trend for many. I don\u2019t think that it\u2019s going to be a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n Ferrari\u2019s diversity\u2014or lack thereof\u2014was Hamilton\u2019s more pressing concern. In the wake of George Floyd\u2019s 2020 murder, as part of the worldwide sports protest movement against racial injustice, Hamilton started the Hamilton Commission to offer recommendations for more Black representation in U.K. motorsports. Mercedes launched its own diversity initiative in the months that followed and began hiring personnel from underrepresented groups, including Black engineers. \u201cI did think, Oh my God, I\u2019ve finally got a more diverse working environment that we\u2019ve built over time,\u201d says Hamilton. \u201cAnd now I\u2019m going back to the beginning of my time with Mercedes, where it wasn\u2019t diverse.\u201d<\/p>\n Along with every other F1 team, Ferrari signed a Diversity and Inclusion charter in November. While the new Trump Administration has made a point of attacking diversity\u2014the President has signed a series of executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion<\/a> programs\u2014Hamilton, for one, remains locked in. \u201cI\u2019m not going to change what he does, or the government does. All I can do is try to make sure that in my space, in my environment, I\u2019m trying to elevate people,\u201d he says. \u201cThere\u2019s going to be forces along the way that don\u2019t want that, for whatever reason I can\u2019t fathom. That doesn\u2019t stop me. It is a fight that we\u2019ll just keep fighting.\u201d Hamilton is confident that Ferrari is committed to inclusion.<\/p>\n Vasseur, Hamilton\u2019s new boss, agrees that it\u2019s important, though as he fiddles with a binder clip in an office at Ferrari headquarters, where trade secrets are so closely guarded visitors must place stickers over their mobile-phone cameras (red ones, of course), he suggests that it may not be his top goal. \u201cIt\u2019s not politically correct, but first is performance,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m keen to go into the direction of diversity and so on. We are doing our best effort. We are trying to push in this direction, but I want to build up the best team.\u201d<\/p>\n I show Vasseur, who hails from France, a photo I found online: it\u2019s him and Hamilton some 20 years ago, celebrating a win. He shows me some photos on his own phone, of his children, who are now grown, with Hamilton. He\u2019s enjoying the walk down memory lane. But, he says, \u201cWe can\u2019t be sentimental.\u201d<\/p>\n Switching teams is difficult for any driver. The steering wheel, the cockpit, the terminology, they\u2019re all different. \u201cI\u2019m literally learning a completely new book,\u201d says Hamilton. F1 regulations allow limited practice time in the new car. He\u2019s made strides in his Italian, thanks to lessons, but he\u2019s by no means fluent. It took Hamilton more than four months to win a race in his first season with Mercedes. What gives Vasseur confidence that Hamilton will accelerate that learning curve?<\/p>\n \u201cI could reply like a book and give you something that you want to write,\u201d Vasseur replies. \u201cBut at the end of the day, at this part of the season, the feeling, the first time, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, will be nothing compared to race one in Australia. You will forget about everything that happened before. It\u2019s all about pure performance.\u201d<\/p>\n While Hamilton swears his devotion to Ferrari, his schedule has remained plenty full. A Fashion Week and red-carpet regular, he has his own production company, a Dior line, and other enterprises. He says he\u2019s in the preliminary stages of developing scripts for a comedy\u2014it doesn\u2019t involve racing\u2014and a film pertaining to pets. (That\u2019s all he\u2019ll offer.) But the biggest thing on the horizon, besides of course the 24 Grand Prix races in the season, is the upcoming F1 movie. <\/p>\n Tom Cruise had first connected Hamilton with director Joseph Kosinski because Hamilton was interested in an acting role in Top Gun: Maverick<\/a>. Kosinski was ready to bring him on board, but Hamilton was still fighting for championships with Mercedes and couldn\u2019t afford the time commitment. Cruise screened the movie, which grossed $1.5 billion worldwide upon its 2022 release, for Hamilton in London. \u201cI was crying a bit inside,\u201d Hamilton says. \u201cAh, that could have been me!\u201d<\/p>\n So when Kosinski called Hamilton about his F1 project, Hamilton jumped at the chance to be a producer. Early in the process, he took Pitt, who plays a veteran F1 driver in the film, for a drive around a track near Los Angeles. \u201cHe gave Brad the scare of a lifetime in a lap,\u201d says Kosinski. \u201cBrad was clawing at the windows, begging to get out.\u201d Hamilton was also part of the casting process and offered instructive feedback. \u201cThe notes are so detailed,\u201d says Bruckheimer. \u201c\u2018When you\u2019re going into that next turn, you have the car in second gear, it should be in third. I can hear it. I can hear the sound of it.\u2019\u201d He pushed for Hans Zimmer, composer of The Lion King, Gladiator, Dune<\/a>, and other hits, to score it. His close relationship with F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali, a former Ferrari team principal, helped the filmmakers gain access to F1 tracks and races to shoot scenes. \u201cHe opened all those doors for us into that world,\u201d says Kosinski. \u201cWe would not have been able to do this without him.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Lewis](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TIM250324_Cover-Hamilton_FINAL.jpg\"\/ "\\"Lewis")
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Celebrating his first World Championship in S\u00e3o Paolo in 2008Andrew Ferraro\u2014LAT Images\/Getty Images<\/p>\n![\"Lewis](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lewis-hamilton-frederic-vasseur-ferrari.jpg\"\/ "\\"lewis-hamilton-frederic-vasseur-ferrari\\"")
With team principal Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Vasseur for the unveiling of the 2025 race car on Feb. 182025 Formula One World Championship Limited<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lewis-hamilton-silverstone-f1-grand-pix.jpg\"\/ "\\"lewis-hamilton-silverstone-f1-grand-pix\\"")
Winning the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in July 2016Clive Mason\u2014Getty Images<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/time-lewis-hamilton-formula-one-ferrari.jpg\"\/ "\\"time-lewis-hamilton-formula-one-ferrari\\"")
Hamilton hopes to break the record for most F1 driver titles and help Ferrari end its longest-ever championship droughtScandebergs for TIME<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lewis-hamilton-fred-vasseur.jpg\"\/ "\\"lewis-hamilton-fred-vasseur\\"")
Vasseur speaks with Hamilton at the GP2 series in Valencia in 2006Formula Motorsport Limited\/Getty Images<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/time-lewis-hamilton-racing.jpg\"\/ "\\"time-lewis-hamilton-racing\\"")
Hamilton calls racing for Ferrari \u201cthe biggest dream\u201dScandebergs for TIME<\/p>\n
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Hamilton photographed in London on Feb. 14Scandebergs for TIME<\/p>\n