10 years of Hamilton's transfer to Mercedes: everyone considered him a mistake (fans, experts and racers). Now Lewis and the team are joking back

The story of Lewis is inseparable from the power of Mercedes. And some fans are sure that almost any pilot (except, of course, Valtteri Bottas) would have won on such a car, and Hamilton was just lucky to be in the dream team and enjoy easy success, while multiple world champions Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel unsuccessfully lifted Honda from their knees and Ferrari.

But were you lucky? The decision to join Mercedes turned out to be perhaps the best in the history of Formula 1, but it did not look at all obvious in 2012. The deal was announced on September 1win-azerbaycan.com 28, 10 years ago:

Yes, the official social networks of the championship found the same tweet An incredible journey has begun.

Mercedes also caught a wave of nostalgia On this day. You know the rest.

The team also joked about the public response to the transfer:

Looks risky. We hope he succeeds!

Lewis himself retweeted the last two posts, moreover, he even found another post in the replies to the ad, which he also took to his blog:

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Hamilton is more likely to win the lottery than a Mercedes RACE!

Yes, no one believed in the unification of Lewis and the German team so much!

To such an extent that even Anthony Hamilton dissuaded his son from breaking up with McLaren, where Lewis almost issued a sensational title in debutant rank in 2007, won the championship a year later and won races until his retirement. Mercedes at that time was the team where Schumacher's path to F-1 resumed and ended again and rather ingloriously.