{"id":89484,"date":"2025-05-10T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/89484\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T07:26:09","slug":"lewis-hamilton-has-different-character-in-button-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/89484\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has &#8216;different character&#8217; in Button observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jenson Button has observed that Lewis Hamilton is a \u201cdifferent character\u201d than he was when the two men were teammates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And the thing that\u2019s making it worse? Being outshined by his teammate.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s \u201cdifferent\u201d about Lewis Hamilton, per Button<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been over a decade since British racers Jenson Button and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/driver\/lewis-hamilton\/results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> were teammates at McLaren, but much has changed since then.<\/p>\n<p>Button has retired, instead going on to compete occasionally in NASCAR and endurance racing events, while Hamilton remained in Formula 1 to take a record-matching seven World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>During their three years as teammates, Button certainly got to know Hamilton \u2014 including how he handles both success and failure. And according to Button, the Hamilton currently on the grid cuts a much different figure to the Hamilton of the past.<\/p>\n<p>More on Lewis Hamilton\u2019s move to Ferrari:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/why-lewis-hamilton-switch-ferrari-from-mercedes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Four big reasons why Lewis Hamilton ditched Mercedes\u00a0for\u00a0Ferrari<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/lewis-hamilton-ferrari-move-timeline-toto-wolff-mercedes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revealed: The remarkable 36-hour timeline behind Lewis Hamilton\u2019s shock\u00a0Ferrari\u00a0move<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After qualifying for the Miami Grand Prix, <strong>Sky Sports F1<\/strong> pundit and 2009 World Champion Jenson Button opened up on just how much Hamilton has changed over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLewis is a different character now than he was when we were teammates,\u201d Button said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he was deflated, the next day he was out and on it and super fast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, he\u2019s much more of a calm personality, he\u2019s much more of a rounded character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While a calmer and more relaxed mindset might be a benefit for a different driver, Button feels that it\u2019s actually become harmful for Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is starting to hurt him a little bit, constantly being slower than his teammate,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s not how Lewis Hamilton is built. He\u2019s a winner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But those wins have been hard to come by these past few years. Hamilton has struggled with the swap to ground effect cars; his two wins in 2024 were his first since the 2022 regulations came into effect, and he has been resoundingly outpaced by Charles Leclerc since the swap to Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>Will we see a resurgence of form? Hamilton hasn\u2019t sounded confident \u2014 but with the right upgrades, anything could be possible.<\/p>\n<p>Read next:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/ferrari-surprising-conclusion-hamilton-leclerc-frustration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ferrari come to surprising conclusion in face of Hamilton and Leclerc frustration<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenson Button has observed that Lewis Hamilton is a \u201cdifferent character\u201d than he was when the two men&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,997,707,4200,225,32332,998,12,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-89484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-ferrari","10":"tag-formula-1","11":"tag-formula1","12":"tag-home-page","13":"tag-jenson-button","14":"tag-lewis-hamilton","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114482353660788769","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89484","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=89484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}