Lewis Hamilton may have droppe꧟d a hint about Ferrari in a private conversation with Toto Wolff picked up by Netflix’s📖 cameras.

The sixth series of Drive To Survive has been released and is focused on last year, when H🌞amilton and Mercedes were negotiating a new contract amid their p♍oor on-track results.

The cameras caught Hamilton sitting down in Wolff’s office for a frank and honestﷺ chat about their partnership.

“Last year [2022], the developme𓆏nt of the car,” Wolff said to Hamilton. “You weren’t happ🐷y with me?

“Sticking to th🍨e concept, holding onto it because of the encouraging results ওat the end…”

Hamilton interruptᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚed: “That was the biggest failure.”

Wolff agreed: “It was the biggest failure.”

Hamilton: “Because last year led us in the wrong… ⛄you know…”

Wolff said: “For me, personally, when you see the step that Aston Martin made over the winter… if we get it right with the concept of the car - the aero and the balance - we can ꧒win a championship.

“Bu🔜t I🐼 don’t want to wait until 2026 when we have the new engine regulations.”

Hamilton thꦛen dropped a clue which may have hinted at what was to come.

Hamilton, then aged 38, told Wolff: “𝕴You can be here for 20 more years, 30 more years. I can’t!”

Wolff: “Who says that?”

Hamilton said: “Precious 𓄧years for me. I don’t know…”

Wolff: “Lewis, you are 💙much more than a racing driver. Much more than a seven-time w✤orld champion. You are one of the people who leads this team forward.”

Hamilton did sign a new two-year Mercedes contract last summer. George Russell also pledged his future to the under-performing team while, this year, Wolff penned new terms to s💙tay as team principal.

But Hamilton stunned F1 - and Wolff - by activatﷺing a clause in his new contract, e🍌nabling him to go to Ferrari in 2025.

He will spend this year with Mercedes driving the W15 b🍸efore heading to th𒀰e famous Italian brand.

Hamilton gave an inജterview, speaking last year, to Netflix’s Drive To Survive: “I have been with Mercedes since I was 13. So, perspectives just shift.

“This year my contract is up for renewal.

“My mindset is: we’ve had two di🍰fficult years so my goal is to get back on top to win a world championship ag൲ain.

“But th๊en we get in th𒅌e car, in 2023, and it’s the evil sister. Yeah…”

Hamilton added about h♑is struggles: “I can’t remember winning, if I’m honest.

“It’s been a minute. I don’t🥃 remember what that feeling is.

“We have to take it on the chin. Acknowledge that we did not get it right. We took the wrong decisions. Mﷺake big strides in the right direction before it’s too late.”

Hamilton told a back-story about the Mercedes engineers ignori🦄ng his advi🍌ce, to their eventual peril.

He said: “Last year I remember complaining to the team: ‘Look we need to make these changes or this is the trajectory we’re going to go on, and this is where we will end up, please please do something about it⛄…’

൲“I remember that day, they said: ‘We know what we are doing, you are wrong’.

“That was an interesting moment. I st🥀epped back and didn’t want to step on anybody’s toes.

“Then we spoke again♏ in the season - ‘maybe you were right…’”

Hamilton, speaking about re-signing with Mercedes last ye♍ar, said: “Every time you do a contract, you’d be an idiot if you didn’t analyse where you currently are, and what other opportunities there are.

“Then you make a decision - explore other opportunities or continไue along with what you’re doing.”

Wolff said about Hamiton’s new Mercedes contract last year: “I cꦬompletely🍌 understand that Lewis needs to look for the best opportunity for himself.

“But what we agreed early on was to not talk to anybody else before being open and honest♎ with each other.”

Wolff added: “In every relationship you will h꧟ave moments where your objectives differ. That’s how life go꧙es.

“In the context 🏅of our relationship, he’s a loyal guy.”

Hamilton said: “Toto and I have a lot in common. We are competitive and hate losing. We’ve had two difficult years but I still have so much faith in Mercedes. You’ve 🤡just got to take a leap of faith.

“Toto has listened. There never feels like✅ඣ a time where I won’t be a Mercedes driver. It is home. It is family.”

Wolff ominously said about Hamilton wearing the red of Ferrari: “It wouldn’t 🍃suit him…”

Russell said, sp♏eaking last year: “If he were to leave, it would put Mercedes in a tricky spot because it would look like he has lost𝔍 faith in the team.”

The release of Netflix’s nღew Drive To Survive series coincides with F1 preseason testing in Bahrain༺ for the upcoming 2024 season.

Hamilton is behind the wheel of the W15 - his final Mercedes F1 car - hoping it brings better fortun✱e than the previous two years.