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I would love to see this guy in a Ferrari. I think they would be a great match that would yield multiple championships.

Hm, looks as if the fight for a seat in a Ferrari is going to be a hard one. Heidfeld close to Maranello (read: in Switzerland), Hamilton, Alonso, Raikkönen - no wait, he has one already...

Hamilton won't drive for Ferrari, no way.

Raikkönen and Heidfeld would make a fucking great team, I think

And neither will Alonso, at least not in 2009.

Massa has a contract until 2010 which will be a very expensive thing to nullify. Add the money Alonso will ask for and I don't see this happening.
Raikkönen has already stated in the german Sport Auto magazine that he will drive in 2009 so no free seat there either.

Hamilton will probably drive for Ferrari sometime during his career. He's top talent and he's got many years in F1 ahead of him.

I personally don't think so.

He's a McLaren man through and through. He was a McLaren boy since the age of 13 and McLaren paid for all of his expenses in his rise through the ranks.

You know... Ferrari only recently regained their reputation as the team to be a part of if you wanted to win starting around '99/'00 and largely thanks to M. Schumacher, Todt, Brawn, Byrne, and that Nigel bloke whose last name I can't remember. It's not like some sort of beacon/goal that all drivers aspire to drive for... it just happens to be one of the top teams alongside McLaren. So, as long as McLaren doesn't suddenly engineer a complete shitbox and drop down several places into the mid-field then I don't see Lewis leaving anytime soon.

I see him being there for a long, long time. Maybe even for the rest of his career. Take Mika Hakkinen for example... he was a McLaren guy from the start. He drove for Lotus for the first 2 years of his racing career in F1 but he was more "on loan" from McLaren. He stayed from McLaren from '93 to 2001 when he left F1.

Well who's to say that Lewis won't go "on loan" from McLaren the way Hakkinen did, or that McLaren will have a season or two with an uncompetitive chassis that may push Hamilton to leave McLaren, at least temporarily?

Like I said, Hamilton's got a lot of F1 career in front of him and none of us can say for sure where the sport, or Lewis, will be in a decade.

The idea of loaning a driver to another team is for them to gain race experience before coming to the main team.

i.e. McLaren, a top competitor, lends Driver C to Toro Rosso so Driver C can race for them and gain experience as he will be replacing Driver A at McLaren next year or two years instead of keeping Driver C around and having him do nothing but minimal testing runs.

If McLaren suddenly dropped in form and Lewis desired to be loaned out instead of sucking it up and toughing it out with the team that raised him then I forsee a lot of problems on the corporate/sponsor side of things. What if he wents to head over to a top team for a bit? That pretty much means a manufacturer competitor against Mercedes-Benz. Can't have that. It'll look bad.

All very valid points. All I'm saying is that we can't be sure where this is all leading, and if Hamilton ever leaves McLaren for any reason, my money would be on Ferrari being his destination, personally.

Nigel Stepney?

At any rate, I see Alonso driving for Ferrari as soon as he can. I think it would be a killer match of driver and team.

I too would love to see Alonso at Ferrari...but one think concerns me. From what I have seen at Ferrari you have to be seen as 100% committed to the team no matter what. Alonso demonstrated at McLaren that he does not have that attitude, and he even tried to blackmail the team (according to reports in the news). If I were Ferrari I might stay away from Alonso for those reasons.

Um, I really don't want to talk about 2007 but Alonso's commitment to McLaren wasn't the problem that sparked t he entire incident. It was McLaren's commitment to Alonso.

Allegedly, they were putting their weight behind Hamilton, a rookie, rather than a proven 2-time WDC and this really peeved him. Especially when Lewis started winning races.

My point is that if that happened at Ferrari, they would expect Alonso to tow the line...