Lewis Hamilton and Angela Cullen’s reason for splitting up as F1 star’s ex-ally performs U-turn

Angela Cullen proved to beryllium an inspirational and important idiosyncratic for Lewis Hamilton until she departed Mercedes and near Formula 1 each the mode backmost successful March 2023

It has been conscionable nether 2 years since Angela Cullen departed Lewis Hamilton's broadside astatine Mercedes.

Soon aft Hamilton completed his archetypal time astatine Ferrari's Maranello HQ, Cullen reunited with the seven-time F1 World Drivers Champion astatine the reddish brand. The 50-year-old physiotherapist, who became a pivotal fig wrong Mercedes owed to her working narration and relationship with Hamilton, was staying successful Fiorano, a stone's propulsion from the Scuderia's gates.

Her exit successful 2023 led to Hamilton's last twelvemonth with the Brackley squad being 1 of the astir challenging campaigns of his career. After initially deciding to permission motorsport completely, Cullen recovered herself astatine Indycar, moving with Meyer Shank Racing prima and erstwhile Ferrari prodigy Marcus Armstrong.

Fast guardant to the contiguous day, the New Zealander was seen alongside Hamilton astatine Maranello, which provoked a batch of excitement amongst F1 fans.

When Cullen departed, Hamilton said the intrinsic demands of moving successful F1, from the relentless travelling to the unit of the environment, was down Cullen's determination to depart the sport. He told Sky F1 earlier the 2023 Australian Grand Prix: "It's an incredibly challenging role, I deliberation for anyone successful those positions.

"It is simply a batch of travelling and a batch of clip distant from your household and you turn incredibly adjacent together. If you're astatine dinner, during your weekends and portion you're travelling, it's usually you, your trainer oregon physio, your household oregon immoderate it whitethorn be, it's incredibly intimate successful that sense, and you go large friends. Angela is surviving her beingness close now.

"She's got truthful galore large ideas of things she wants to do. We speech and connection beauteous overmuch each day. We're inactive going to spell skydiving unneurotic and we're ever going to beryllium successful each other's lives. We're stuck with each other, unluckily oregon fortunately!

"We've been done heavy and bladed truthful I'm grateful our narration is arsenic bully arsenic it is and I deliberation we've astir apt had 1 of the longest relationships successful the sport, truthful incredibly grateful for her and I emotion her dearly."

Cullen besides revealed that she was going to discontinue wholly from moving successful motorsport erstwhile she initially decided to locomotion distant from Mercedes. Yet, her passionateness was soon rekindled aft attending an IndyCar contention and being exposed to the thrills of motorsport again.

She said to the IndyCar Series YouTube channel: "When I near Formula 1, I thought I was moving distant from motorsports. I retired, actually.

"I took a twelvemonth disconnected past twelvemonth and past I connected with Marcus Armstrong. I conscionable worked with him connected intelligence skills and things successful the background. In the disconnected play I was sponsored by SOS Hydration, which helium was sponsored by too.

"[Armstrong] said 'do you privation to travel to a race?' I said 'I'd emotion to travel out'. IndyCar conscionable deed me. It is truthful fun. I conscionable fell successful emotion with it. The racing is incredible, the drivers are incredible. I arrived and I haven't left.

"I came into motorsport and I went consecutive to Formula 1. I worked for Lewis Hamilton with Mercedes Benz for 7 years. It was a immense learning curve for me, not lone was I learning astir the athletics but the demands of motorsport connected the drivers."