Mercedes have revealed that168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton left a special handwritten note for Andrea Kimi Antonelli ahead of his F1 debut in 2025.

Seven-time world champion Hamilton is departing Mercedes after 12 seasons to ma♒ke the switch to rivals Ferrari for next year. The 39-year-old Briton turned in a brilliant comeback drive from 16th on the grid to fourth in his final race with Mercedes at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Speaking on a special episode of F1’s Beyond The Grid podcast, Mercedes race team co-ordinator Stephen Lord provided insight into Hamilton’s “emotional” goodbye to his driver room followin൲g the last💯 round of the European season in Monza.

“It's quite an interesting insigh🅺t into Lewis that perhaps people don't see,” Lord said. “It was after the race in Monza, obviously the last European round. Lewis was upstairs. He did the engineering debrief.

“In Europe we have the race base, where we have like an engineering suite on the top floor and at the back of the engineering suite, the drivers have their own rooms, so they ha🎃ve a room where they have massage beds and all of their kit is laid o🌄ut ready. Then they have a bathroom with a shower and a toilet.

“Lewis had finished engineering. I think the engineers had left so Lewis was upstairs in the room on his own. I popped up, grabbed a coupl🎀e of bits, came back down the stairs, and Lewis came down the stairs ready to leave and head home.

“He got to the bottom of the stairs and he stopped, then he turned around and he went back upstairs. I thought ‘he’s forgotten something,’ didn't think much of iꦑt. He came back down about 10 minutes later a♔nd he grabbed a guy that works for the team, Carlos, who's our Head of Race Team Logistics.

“And you could se﷽e that Lewis was really quite emotional and he grabbed Carlos and said, ‘it's only just occurred to me, I'm never going to see that room ever again. I'm really emotional. I can't leave. I feel kind of sad to walk away from that room because I've been in that room for so many years aཧnd I'm never going to see it again.’ He was really quite touched that he was leaving it behind.”

‘Pretty special’ note to Kimi Antonelli

Hamilton will be replaced at Mercedes by 18-year-old teenage sensation Antonelli, who will partner 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell as𝓰 part of the Silver Arrows’ new-look driv🍸er line-up for 2025 and beyond.

Lord revealed that Hamiltoꦗn had left Antonelli a touching note in what will become the Italian’s 🔯driver room from next season.

“I walked into the ro༺om and on the wall there’s quite a long, handwritten note,” he said. “It was a note to Kimi and it was basically welcoming him to his new room, 🤪and it was wishing him the best of luck, saying some really nice things about the team and how, ‘if you care for them, they'll care for you because they're a great team.’

“I thought, ‘wow, what a nice thing to do.’ And actually we've had glass cut and it's now covered in the room so it will be there forever more. I thought I'd just go into the bat🗹hroom.

“I walked into the bathroom and next to the toilet, above the toilet roll holder, was ‘Lewis was here’ with a big smiley face and I thoᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚught, ‘okay, I like that.’ But the 𒉰note to Kimi was pretty special.”