- Angela Cullen was Lewis Hamilton's main confidant during four of his titles.
- The couple broke up at the beginning of the 2023 season, for unknown reasons.
- But, when the Briton begins his last hurray at Ferrari at the age of 40, she returns to his side.
Lewis Hamilton's most trusted assistant, Angela Cullen, is back at his side after two years, as she made her first visit to the Ferrari factory in Maranello yesterday.
Mail Sport can reveal that the 50-year-old New Zealand physiotherapist, who he described as “one of the best things that has ever happened to me”, is staying at Fiorano, close to the Scuderia's front gates.
A cheerful character, Cullen accompanied Hamilton during four of his six world championship successes with Mercedes, and was his main confidant and assistant. She was regularly seen putting his hair up or carrying his umbrella in the net.
The pair were also inseparable during the Covid lockdown, when members of F1's traveling community were banned from seeing anyone outside their two or three-person “bubbles”.
That's why it was a shock when they broke up at the beginning of the 2023 season, for unknown reasons.
His reappearance in Italy indicates that Hamilton is looking for every spark he can to reignite his career as he embarks on his last hurray at Ferrari, aged 40.
Lewis Hamilton greets a group of fans as he arrives for his first day at Ferrari on Monday.
Angela Cullen has been Hamilton's main confidant for much of his Formula One career.
The seven-time world champion is looking for every spark to reignite his career at 40 years old.
Hamilton once said of Cullen, a mother of two: “She is the hardest working woman I can be around.”
'She is focused, selfless and makes my weekends peaceful.
'Every day I wake up, whatever time it is, she is positive. Never a single day has she been negative. That's very important.'
Hamilton arrived at the factory gates yesterday (apparently without Cullen present) in the dark of morning promising a “new era in the history of this iconic team.”
He met with key figures, including his new race engineer, Riccardo Adami, who remains in the role having played the same role for Hamilton's predecessor, Carlos Sainz.
Hamilton posed outside founder Enzo Ferrari's track office for his official opening photo, dressed in a black suit and a coat worn as a cape.