{"id":107235,"date":"2025-05-16T20:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T20:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107235\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T20:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T20:57:10","slug":"lewis-hamilton-says-brake-performance-has-felt-like-a-lottery-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107235\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton says brake performance has felt like a \u2018lottery\u2019 in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/lewis-hamilton\/1278\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> said the performance of his brakes has been so inconsistent this season that it\u2019s felt like a \u201clottery.\u201d The Ferrari driver spent most of the first practice session during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/location\/imola\/134\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emilia Romagna Grand Prix<\/a> weekend complaining about the brakes over team radio. Evidentially, he\u2019s still adapting to the Italian outfit\u2019s Brembo brakes, after more than a decade spent driving with the Carbon Industrie version at Mercedes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cP1 was good,\u201d the seven-time world champion\u00a0said after practice on Friday, according to RACER. \u201cI was really, really happy with the car in P1. I felt like we had made a step forward and I was feeling really positive. I&#8217;ve literally changed two of the tiniest things that shouldn&#8217;t have had barely any effect at all. The smallest change we&#8217;ve done this year,\u201d he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1747429030_669_lewis-hamilton-ferrari.jpg\" alt=\"Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Peter Fox \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had some brake issues that made a massive difference, so that was a fight with that. That&#8217;s been quite a big issue all year actually. I&#8217;ve never experienced that before. So that&#8217;s a new thing for me this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite making a slight performance gain, Hamilton said he\u2019s still in the dark about how to find consistency from the brakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s not the transition, it&#8217;s the performance\u2026. It\u2019s a lottery. We roll the dice and you put one [set of brakes] on and it works and you put another on and it doesn\u2019t. So I hope tomorrow we figure something out. We&#8217;re working on it, for sure,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/location\/imola\/134\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Head here to stay up to speed with the latest F1 Imola Grand Prix news<\/a>, expert analysis, photos and videos.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>    Emily Selleck\n<\/p>\n<p>    Formula 1\n<\/p>\n<p>    Lewis Hamilton\n<\/p>\n<p>    Ferrari\n<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton said the performance of his brakes has been so inconsistent this season that it\u2019s felt like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[37710,4199,45111,997,707,4200,998,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-107235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-emilia-romagna-gp","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-emilia-romagna-gp","11":"tag-ferrari","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-lewis-hamilton","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114519516575395862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}