Ferrari warns 2025 will be ‘all wrong’ if it lets Lewis Hamilton do what he did at Mercedes

The current generation machines do not suit Hamilton’s driving style. George Russell beat him immediately after joining from Williams in 2022, but the veteran had the advantage in qualifying.

Last season Hamilton broke back, finishing almost 60 points ahead of Russell. However, in 2024, both Saturday and Sunday are left behind.

Russell has dominated qualifying in alarming fashion, heading into this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix with a 16-5 lead. Charles LeclercHamilton’s next teammate is considered by some to be the fastest F1 driver in a single lap.

What’s more, Hamilton has only finished ahead of his team-mate six times this year. Despite this, Russell only leads by two points ahead of the season-ending triple header.

Ferrari must stop Lewis Hamilton ‘experimenting’ with his car in 2025

Speaking on Formule1.nl’s Paddockpraat podcast, former F1 engineer Ernest Knoors said Hamilton “tends to screw up his whole car” if he struggles with performance. Ferrari should be careful.

While they will naturally respect Hamilton’s ‘big personality’, they also need to offer guidance and prevent him from ‘experimenting’ excessively. The season could go ‘all wrong’ if adequate action is not taken.

Knoors is doubtful whether Hamilton will be able to get more out of the car than his predecessor Carlos Sainz. He suspects that Ferrari signed him largely for marketing purposes.

“I see Lewis Hamilton’s arrival at Ferrari as more of a public relations move,” he said. “I’m sorry, but Hamilton is not going to take Ferrari from 6th to 1st place. He will make the most of it, but what Ferrari needs to do is make the car faster. And if you make that car faster, with the current squad he is easily at the front.” You can take part.”

“A big name like Hamilton also comes with a lot of politics. And if the politics within Ferrari are not handled well then there is potential for huge drama.

“Hamilton has a tendency to turn his entire car upside down and start experimenting if things don’t go well. Ferrari believes strongly in great personalities and will follow them.

“But Hamilton is not someone you need to give some guidance and the freedom to rebuild the whole car.” Because then everything will go completely wrong.”

How much damage have radical Mercedes experiments done to Lewis Hamilton this year?

Hamilton has rarely looked comfortable behind the wheel in 2024. He was responsible for two of Mercedes’ three race wins, but the optimism resulting from these rises was short-lived.

This is because the car has an extremely narrow operating range. If you deviate too far from it, driving on the borderline becomes impossible in some places – Hamilton’s plane designed for ‘lousy’ viewing in Brazil.

Hamilton has been trialling for three seasons Trying to find a solution that works consistently. These efforts failed and perhaps actively harmed.

The 39-year-old pilot thinks that ‘it is more difficult to know the vehicle’s limit’ because it changes its settings so frequently. That may explain why it was so weak in the third quarter of this year, when drivers struggled the most.

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