Toto Wolff has already rec🔴eived messages from F1 drivers who are eyeing up the vacancy that Lewis Hamilton will leave at Mercedes.

Hamilton and Mercedes a𝕴re entering their final year together before the driver sensationally moves to Ferrari.

The question for Mercedes i♍s who they will pick to replace the most successful-ever F1 driver.

“Yeah, as you can imagine, we've been lookin🐟g already about the option there is,” team principal Wolff told .

“We like the opportunities and maybe we are going to 💦be bold as well.”

Carlos Sainz, whose Ferrari spot will be taken by Hamilton next year,🐽 must find himself a new drive for 2025.

He was the only non-Red Bull driver to win an F1 grand prix last year so will be hot prop𒊎e꧂rty on the market.

Mercedes coul꧟d opt for a younger option in the mould of their wonderkid prospect Kimi Antonelli instead.

𒁃“Yeah, I think 🍃it's the full spectrum,” Wolff said.

“We have, as you can imagine, the first day yesterday had quite a💖 lot of phone calls and WhatsApps.

“And we're going to take our time.

“I think the spectrum is from the very young talent which could be the future for a long, long 💯time to all the way to the other spectrum, lots of still performance and knowledge.

“So I'm not suꦗre where thi☂s is going to end. But the next few months are going to be interesting in evaluating all those options.”

While Wolffᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤🦄ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ makes his huge decision over Mercedes’ 2025 driver line-up, he must navigate a tricky 2024.

As well as entering knowing that Hamilton will soon be elsewhere, they must somehow cut the deficit🧜 to the brilliant Red Bulls.

“Well, it's clear when you have 𒉰stable regulations it is alwꦐays a difficult thing to catch up.

“It's clear, they've been in a league of their own and pretty much us – and we've finished second last yea𒀰r in the World Championship and then there's Ferrari and McLaren – and we've just got a little ramp up the game and find more performance, more lap time.

“And this is what we're going to do with George and with Lewis the car, this is the kind of the single aim I'm having🐎 at the moment when looking at the short and medium term.”

Wolff added insight into the contractual clause thﷺat Hamilton activated, af🍷ter signing a new deal last summer, to leave for Ferrari in 2025.

“So last year when we signed a new deal, we w🐽anted🦩 to keep it short to see what the future will hold,” he said.

“And that was an agreement we had with Lewis.

“We knew that this would eventua༒lly end maybe two years dow༺n the line, but we knew there was the option for a one year deal.

“And insofar the timing was a bit of a surprise, but the decision in itself didn't🐬 come out of nowhere.

“So I think eventually a racing driver's career ends and I believe that for Lewis he wanted some change, and he🧔 wanted to do something, to try something new.

“But ✱the team has managed a situation like this bef🅺ore, we've had that change in driver lineups.

“And we have 🥀a full year to go I'm going to give it everything now.

“Of course, you know, on one side, you're saying we were pushing flat out and we want to have success this year with both of ar✱e drivers but then we need to look into 2026 and 2025 and 26 and that's going to pla⛦y in our mind.”