Lewis Hamilton to Ferrari: the inside story - with Lawrence Barretto, Roberto Chinchero + Rob Smedley
F1 Nation
Formula 1
4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In a special episode of F1 Nation, Tom Clarkson gets the inside story of Ferrari's long pursuit of Hamilton from F1 Correspondent and Presenter Lawrence Barretto, who explains why the Scuderia succeeded this time. Journalist Roberto Chinchero gives us reaction from Italy. Former Ferrari race engineer Rob Smedley explains what awaits the 7-time World Champion when he arrives in Maranello.
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Welcome everybody to the first F1 Nation podcast of 2024. It's earlier than we'd planned |
| 0:27.6 | because of the huge, huge news that Lewis |
| 0:34.3 | says leaving Mercedes is one of the hardest decisions he's ever had to make |
| 0:39.8 | So why has he decided to swap Mercedes Silver for Ferrari Red and how did it all happen? |
| 0:46.2 | There is so much to talk about we just had to do this special episode. |
| 0:51.0 | Hello, it's Tom Clarkson with you and later on we'll be hearing from former Ferrari |
| 0:56.5 | race engineer Rob Smedley on what awaits Lewis when he goes to the scooteria, but right |
| 1:01.6 | now F1 correspondent and presenter Lawrence Beretto is with us, as is Sky Italy's |
| 1:07.0 | Roberto Kinkaro. Guys, a very warm welcome to you both. What a new story? It was the biggest day in my career I think from a news |
| 1:16.4 | perspective I had my nan talking to me about the news I had my 10 year old cousin talking to me about |
| 1:21.1 | the news and they have no interest in Formula One. |
| 1:24.4 | Lewis Hamilton to Ferrari, we've talked about it for years and it's finally happened. |
| 1:30.4 | And Roberto, how has the news gone down in Italy? |
| 1:33.0 | Today I had a look to the main newspaper, |
| 1:37.0 | not only the sports one, I mean the big mainstream, |
| 1:42.0 | everybody's talking about you is, is in the first page of all the newspaper, |
| 1:47.0 | two, four, five, eight pages in the Sporting Magazine about this story, |
| 1:55.0 | honestly, was so big because it was unexpected. |
| 1:59.0 | But I'm not very surprised about this choice by Lewis. |
| 2:04.4 | Go on, tell us more, why? |
| 2:06.2 | Well, it happens in the past that |
| 2:10.8 | Lewis had a chat with the Ferrari top management. Every time happened when he was discussing, |
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