Lewis Hamilton will experience a tra🧸nsition this year where Mercedes won’t want to share information with their outgoing d♚river, Martin Brundle believes.

Hamilton will spend one final season at Mercedes - the t꧟eam where he has won six of his joint-record seven F1 championships - before going to Ferrari in 2025.

Toto Wolff’s team will eventually slow down the feed of knowledge to Hamilton as his days at Mercedes beco♊me numbered, Brundle warned.

“You’ve got this transition point where Lewis will stop being invited to meetings,” the Sky Spor♔ts expert said.

“He won’t understand what’s going on with development of the car and in the simulꦫa🐷tor.

😼“The team consciousಞly, subconsciously, will favour George.

“They have got to.”

Mercedes team principal Wolff has already insisted💃 that he does worry about Hamilton’s ‘integrity’ in terms of taking secrets to Ferraꦜri next year.

🧔Asked what type of knowledge Hamilton could feasibly bring with him to Italy, Brundle explained: “Processes, philosophies, how the car works, what he likes, how he likes to sit, what he needs from a car to maximise his talent.

“He’s got to integrate. That’s hard. He won’t speak the language or know the te🧸am lik🅷e Charles Leclerc does.

“You need to find out wher🐎e all 🤪the buttons are to press.

“Thaꦇt’s why Lewis, I think, will want to try to take a fไew people with him.

“But there wi♌ll be non-compete clauses so he can’t do that.

🦄“You want to take some of your own gang with you, wܫhen you go. So you can hit the ground running.”

Brundle added about Hamilton: “I have no doubt that he will give it everyt🍒hing he’s got until the last🅠 lap of the last race.

“If everybody is smart - anꦆd I think they are - they will see it as a farewell tour.

“They’ll wish him farewell then hope🐭 he loses in 🀅a  Ferrari!”

Simon Lazenby was asked about the possible awkwardness of Hamilt🔜on spending an entire year at Mercedes with everybody ♓knowing he is Ferrari-bound.

“The thing with Lewis🐻, it’s an eꦛxceptional case,” Lazenby said. “It’s Lewis!

“He brought everything to Mercedes. The𓂃y kind of do owe him🃏.

“I think they owe✃ him everything. They probably owe him the respect to treat him like the great champion that he is, for the time that he’s at Mercedes.

“I don’t thi🐬nk it will be emotional. He’ll get through the season.

𒈔“He’ll know early on if he’s got a ca♏r capable of competing for the championship.

“If he does? They’ll have to rally 🉐around whoever is the ⛄best driver.”