Lewis Hamilton's feelings on Christian Horner as Ferrari move rumoured

Back successful 2023, Lewis Hamilton denied Christian Horner’s claims that the erstwhile Red Bull squad main attempted to scope retired to the now-Ferrari operator to lure him distant from Mercedes.

Horner was sacked by Red Bull successful the week aft a disappointing play truthful far, with pb operator Max Verstappen successful 3rd spot pursuing Sunday’s British Grand Prix astatine Silverstone.

Verstappen finished the contention successful fifth, with Oscar Piastri’s second-placed decorativeness allowing the McLaren operator to determination 69 points wide of the Dutchman successful the drivers’ standings.

With Red Bull besides successful 4th successful the Constructors’ Championship, Horner was shown the door soon aft the season’s three-week interruption started.

Christian Horner astatine the 2025 Austrian Grand Prix for Red Bull (credit: Getty)

Horner's claims astir Hamilton gathering were rebuffed

Things could person been overmuch antithetic for Horner, however, arsenic backmost successful 2023, the 51-year-old claimed a typical of Hamilton’s reached retired astir the anticipation of swapping Mercedes and Red Bull earlier the British operator signed a two-year woody with the former.

However, Hamilton rebuffed the claims astatine the time, though the brace whitethorn nexus up with Ferrari amidst rumours Horner whitethorn present instrumentality up a relation astatine the Italian manufacturer.

“I don't truly cognize wherever that communicative has travel from. I mean I cognize it's travel from Christian,” Hamilton told Sky Sports pursuing the season-ended Abu Dhabi expansive prix 2 years’ agone “I don't truly recognize what he's been talking astir due to the fact that nary one, arsenic acold arsenic I'm aware, from my squad has spoken to him. I haven't spoken to Christian truly successful years.

“However, helium did scope retired to maine earlier connected successful the twelvemonth astir gathering up, but that's it. I conscionable congratulated them connected an astonishing twelvemonth and said, 'hopefully soon, I'll beryllium capable to combat against you guys successful the adjacent future.' That was it. So I'm not truly sure, I deliberation he's conscionable stirring things.”

Lewis Hamilton gave his thoughts (Credit:Getty)

No attack from Red Bull for Hamilton

Speaking to the written media, Hamilton stated helium was not amazed that radical “drop my sanction successful galore conversations due to the fact that they cognize it's gonna marque waves and if you're a small spot lonely and don't get overmuch attention, it's the cleanable happening to do.”

On immoderate attack from Red Bull, Hamilton stated: “I've checked with everyone connected the team, and nary one's spoken to them, but they person tried to scope retired to us.

“Basically, I picked up my aged telephone which I've conscionable recovered astatine location that had my aged fig connected it and I switched it on, evidently hundreds of messages travel done and I realised determination was 1 for Christian unneurotic and chat astatine the extremity of the season.”

Hamilton has endured a rocky commencement to beingness astatine Ferrari, and presently finds himself successful sixth spot connected 103 points successful the Drivers’ Championship standings pursuing his fourth-placed decorativeness astatine Silverstone astatine the play during which a GPS responsibility denied him an 11th successive podium decorativeness astatine the historical track.