Anthony Hamilton was not worried when his son Lewis moved from McLaren to Mercedes, but he was a bit skeptical.
Indeed, the 2008 and 2014 world champion was leaping into the unknown at Brackley. But it wasn't all uncertainty. The Hamilton family knew for instance that Mercedes would, sooner or later, produce a title-winning car. "We knew that if it wasn’t this year, it would next year so there was no real worry," Hamilton Sr told Sky Sports Online. "And apart from that we had great belief in Lewis' ability to get another job – he is a world champion, there would have been room for him somewhere."
There was however an issue with loyalty, an essential quality in F1, according to Lewis' father. "In this industry you have to be loyal I think," he adds. "That is the first thing you need to have in your rucksack, because there are only a handful of teams, and there are certainly only a handful at the front that are always going to be at the front. "At the time (of the switch) my loyalties were to McLaren and I think Lewis’s were as well, but the excitement of doing something new and taking a leap into the unknown is really what excited him."
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