Minardi reacts to Hamilton's switch: 'No guarantee of success'

Lewis Hamilton will join the Italian Scuderia on the hunt for his eighth world title, should he not already win it this season. Giancarlo Minardi, founder of former Formula 1 team Minardi, does not quite understand the situation.

Minardi would 'not have taken someone like Hamilton'. The Italian explains why he questions the Brit's arrival at Ferrari. "In F1, it is fundamental to have a winning car. You don't build a house from the roof. You build it from the foundations," he explained to QNMotori.

"It follows that Hamilton is no guarantee of success. Just as Vettel was not," the 76-year-old man from Faenza continued. Minardi hopes the British driver from Stevenage will prove him wrong. " I am just expressing a scepticism that I hope is unfounded," Minardi opined about perhaps the most shocking F1 news in years.

Because Hamilton will race for Ferrari from 2025, Formula 1 will once again be put on the map. The most successful driver of all time is leaving for the Formula 1 team with the most history, which every young racing driver dreams of one day driving for. In any case, F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali was delighted with the switch.