Lewis Hamilton has endured a nightmare begin to life with Ferrari and has been warned by Ralf Schumacher that he might quickly stroll away from the game
A former racing star has warned that Lewis Hamilton would possibly stroll away from Formulation 1 earlier than his Ferrari contract is up if he would not flip round his efficiency. The seven-time champion has had a rocky begin with the Scuderia, managing to scrape collectively solely 31 factors in 5 outings.
Hamilton hasn’t managed to put above fifth in any Grand Prix for his new squad and struggled to a seventh-place end in Saudi Arabia final Sunday. Even his sole spotlight this season, clinching a Dash race victory in China, was marred by the gut-wrenching disqualification from the next important occasion in Shanghai.
Together with his dream of an eighth F1 title quickly unravelling, there’s now discuss that the British racing legend might exit stage left from the game earlier than his present contract concludes subsequent yr.
Ex-F1 ace Ralf Schumacher reckons Hamilton hasn’t fairly acquired the measure of his new trip. He additionally senses that the 40-year-old celebrity’s ardour for racing could have waned.
“You’ll be able to see that he is actually slumped over,” he noticed on Sky Germany’s Backstage Pit Lane podcast. “Should you’re standing there sooner or later and haven’t any extra assets and are completely slower, then you definitely lose all the things.
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“I do know from my very own expertise: if it goes on like this, it is no enjoyable anymore. If it goes on like this, there is a danger that sooner or later he’ll say, ‘Look, I do not need this anymore’.
“Clearly, it isn’t understanding for some cause. It is an enormous mission that Ferrari and Hamilton had in thoughts, however for the time being, he is a great distance away from [team-mate] Charles Leclerc.”
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Whereas Hamilton has struggled to carry out, the final consensus is that Leclerc has been capable of get probably the most out of Ferrari’s automotive to date this season. He particularly impressed in Jeddah by securing the workforce’s first Grand Prix podium of 2025, taking the chequered flag third forward of the faster McLaren of Lando Norris.
Schumacher’s feedback come after Hamilton made a sombre forecast following that Saudi Arabia race. He doesn’t foresee any vital enhancements in efficiency for the remainder of the 2025 season, studies the Categorical.
“I feel I will wrestle additionally in Miami,” he admitted. “I do not understand how for much longer I will wrestle for, however it’s undoubtedly painful. For the time being, there is no repair. So, that is how it should be for the remainder of the yr. It is going to be painful.”
Hamilton sits seventh within the drivers’ championship heading into this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix. He’s 16 factors and two locations behind Leclerc and already 68 adrift of standings chief Oscar Piastri, who leapfrogged Norris along with his Jeddah victory.
