Lewis Hamilton has received a huge Mercedes blow, as their end of season plans have been unveiled. The seven-time world champion is set to enter his final three races with Mercedes, after a difficult final season with the team.

Mercedes are giving fans the chance to have their name on the W15 driven by Lewis Hamilton as he contests his final race with the team.

Lewis Hamilton’s first appearance for Ferrari is likely to be in a 2022 machine at the start of next year, with the driver and Mercedes having “jointly decided” against the seven-time world champion taking part in the post-season tyre test in Abu Dhabi for the Scuderia.

Lewis Hamilton is braced for a frustrating end to his Mercedes career after trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin explained that the team will be using the remaining three races of the 2024 season as glorified test sessions to help George Russell and Kimi Antonelli for next year.

Lewis Hamilton will first test a Ferrari F1 car early next year, with the prospect of him driving at the 2024 post-season test in Abu Dhabi a non-starter. Seven-time F1 world champion will leave Mercedes after 12 years at the Silver Arrows at the end of the season and only has three races left before he moves to the Scuderia in 2025.

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton has praised Williams interim driver Franco Colapinto's performance since his F1 debut in the Italian Grand Prix, emphasizing that

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