{"id":54087,"date":"2025-04-27T06:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T06:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54087\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T06:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T06:37:08","slug":"dejected-lewis-hamilton-receives-worrying-verdict-over-f1-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54087\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Dejected’ Lewis Hamilton receives worrying verdict over F1 form"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former F1 driver Karun Chandhok has voiced concern over the trend of Lewis Hamilton’s performances at the start of his tenure at Ferrari.<\/p>\n

With five rounds in the books, Hamilton sits seventh in the drivers’ standings with a best grand prix result of fifth coming in Bahrain.<\/p>\n

His highlight of the campaign to date came in China when he emerged victorious in the sprint race – however, the seven-time champion has had little to cheer about outside that result.<\/p>\n

Chandhok pointed to a turning point in the head-to-head fight against team-mate Charles Leclerc and voiced worry over his declining form in qualifying.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe worry for me is that it [China sprint performance] is now becoming the outlier,\u201d Chandhok told the Sky F1 podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the Sunday of China, where Leclerc got ahead of him in the race despite having a damaged front wing, Leclerc was quicker in the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe trend is the worry for me. In Australia, Lewis was [two-tenths] off Charles. In Japan, it became three-tenths. In Bahrain it became .59. In Saudi, it became over six-tenths. The trend is going the wrong way.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a driver who we’re hoping was getting more and more accustomed to life at Ferrari, that gap should have been closing down, but it’s going the wrong way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tKarun Chandhok gives reason for ‘deflated’ Lewis Hamilton attitude<\/p>\n

Hamilton endured a difficult race last time out in Saudi Arabia as he crossed the line in seventh place, almost 40 seconds down on race winner Oscar Piastri.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old admitted after the race that the \u201cpain\u201d he endured could last the entirety of the upcoming campaign.<\/a><\/p>\n

Chandhok detailed the depth of Hamilton’s struggles goes beyond addressing a shortcoming in one particular area.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Saudi Arabia, he just looks so deflated,\u201d he said. \u201cAt least in Bahrain, the race pace wasn’t so bad. It wasn’t six-tenths a lap in the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was not that far away. The problem in Saudi Arabia was, it was 31 seconds across 50 laps, which is the same six-tenths, basically. So I think that’s why he just looked dejected.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Australia, we were looking at the data and it was only those sort of couple of corners, Turn 6, Turn 12, we thought, \u2019Okay, he’s there everywhere else. Braking, he\u2019s there. Ultra-high speed, he\u2019s there. It’s just those medium-to-high corners, he\u2019s down. It’s coming, it’s going to happen\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut now the trend has gone where he\u2019s just losing a bit everywhere. As a driver, psychologically, you’re looking at the data going. \u2018Where do I begin?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it’s just one type of corner, it’s easier to focus on. He’s now going, \u2018I’ve got to look at the whole spectrum of types of corners\u2019. That, I think is where it’s psychologically why we’re seeing him look so deflated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former F1 driver Karun Chandhok has voiced concern over the trend of Lewis Hamilton’s performances at the start…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[859,4199,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,4200,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-54087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-formula1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motorsport","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114408550806689859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54087","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=54087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}