{"id":19183,"date":"2025-04-14T12:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/19183\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T12:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:29:10","slug":"lewis-hamilton-faces-troubled-times-as-brundle-presents-ferrari-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/19183\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton faces ‘troubled times’ as Brundle presents Ferrari theory"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not age that\u2019s hampering Lewis Hamilton, it\u2019s having to \u201cunlearn\u201d everything he learned at Mercedes and adjust to life at Ferrari.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But while Sky F1 pundit Martin Brundle says he can buy into that argument, he still finds it a \u201cbit surprising\u201d that the seven-time World Champion hasn\u2019t yet found his feet at Ferrari.<\/p>\n

Martin Brundle: \u2018Troubled times\u2019 for Lewis Hamilton<\/p>\n

Hamilton\u2019s first four races as a Ferrari Formula 1 driver have seen him experience the thrilling winning in red, P1 in the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint, and the heartbreak of a disqualification when, just 24 hours later, his skid block was found to have excessive wear after the main race.<\/p>\n

But in the midst of all that, life has not been as rosy as either the Briton or Ferrari dreamt it would be.<\/p>\n

Hamilton<\/a> has yet to feature on a grand prix podium, has finished behind Charles Leclerc on all four Sundays and he\u2019s also struggled in qualifying.<\/p>\n

Finishing Saturday\u2019s qualifying in Bahrain down in ninth place, the seven-time World Champion cut a dejected figure.<\/p>\n

Bahrain GP analysis: Lewis Hamilton\u2019s struggles<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udc49 Hamilton \u2018on the floor\u2019 in \u2018like watching him wear Mercedes uniform\u2019 claim <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just not doing a good enough job on my side so I\u2019ve just got to keep improving,\u201d he told the media including PlanetF1.com. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely not a good feeling, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quizzed on what he could do to improve his pace, he replied: \u201cI really don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t have a lot of answers for you guys, I just wasn\u2019t quick today.\u201d<\/p>\n

He later added: The car has improved [with the upgrades], it\u2019s just my driving.\u201d<\/p>\n

His \u201csad interviews\u201d \u2013 as former F1 driver Brundle put it \u2013 reminded the Sky F1 pundit of Hamilton\u2019s woes in his final season with Mercedes during which he said he\u2019s \u201cdefinitely not fast anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s once again raised the question: has age caught up with Formula 1\u2019s most successful driver?<\/p>\n

\u201cThose sad interviews, we got quite used to those last year, didn\u2019t we?\u201d Brundle replied. \u201cThey\u2019re now just replaying out at Ferrari.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy experience is that different things go [with age]. I noticed my eyes going at Le Mans, for example, at night. I think Sebastian Vettel lost a bit of peripheral vision, for example, if I think at the end of his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I wouldn\u2019t say there\u2019s one size fits all on that, but I just still feel that age is not Lewis\u2019s problem. No, I really don\u2019t think he\u2019s lost any vision or he\u2019s lost any kind of driving ability as such.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just seems to have lost his way a little bit in getting a car how he likes it, and he\u2019s got a host of young drivers around him who\u2019ve got way over 100 races [of] experience and they\u2019re still in their mid-20s.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brundle reckons Hamilton having to unlearn 12 years worth of Mercedes lessons and adjust to life with the Maranello team is plaguing him at the start of F1 2025.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an adjustment, though, that he thought a driver of Hamilton\u2019s experience would be able to make faster.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody explained to me today that it\u2019s harder to relearn and move teams than it is to be a rookie and just learn in the first place,\u201d said Brundle.<\/p>\n

\u201cKind of buying into that a little bit. But it\u2019s a bit surprising, I thought Lewis would pick it up.<\/p>\n

\u201cClearly the car is not working, and of course, he wants to find out how to work with the engineer better, how to make the team, find out where all the green buttons are to find the speed that the clear already knows.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut at the moment, I would say it\u2019s troubled times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamilton is seventh in the Drivers\u2019 Championship<\/a> with 25 points, 52 behind championship leader Lando Norris. He trails Leclerc by seven.<\/p>\n

Read next: Ferrari Bahrain upgrades and strategy under the microscope as numbers crunched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not age that\u2019s hampering Lewis Hamilton, it\u2019s having to \u201cunlearn\u201d everything he learned at Mercedes and adjust…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4203,997,225,998,5267,12,12591,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-19183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bahrain-grand-prix","9":"tag-ferrari","10":"tag-home-page","11":"tag-lewis-hamilton","12":"tag-martin-brundle","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sky-f1","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114336324957592839","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19183","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=19183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}