Lewis Hamilton was signed 🐠as a “brand decision” by Ferrari and Carlos Sainz would be doing a better job in their car, it has been boldly claimed.

Hamilton enters this weekend’s F1 Bahrain Grand Prix, the fourth round of the 2025 season, needing to tackle the problems with his Ferrari that he has faced so far.

While 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton won the 𝄹sprint race in Chin🦂a, it was a brief highlight in an otherwise worrying start to his Ferrari adventure, with the famous red cars routinely off the pace of McLaren and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.

“Whether you are disappointed or not with Lewis’ performa✃nces at Ferrari,♊ it depends on your expectations,” .

“For my part, I said that if there was a championship-winning car at Ferrari, it would 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc who would win the championship,♍ but Hamil🥀ton would win races.

“But we don’t have a championship-winning car at Ferrari. Leclerc is still getting more out of the car,🦹 but Lewis is capable of winning a grand prix if things go right.

“I am not disappointed by that. That’s exactly where I thought i♚t would be.

“The only thing that has surpr💞ised me is that Lewis hasn’t yet softened his driving to the point of being who he is, as he was at McLaren and Mercedes. He is still braking too much in a straight line, he is still takin🌟g relatively wide entries.

“If I was Fred Vasseur I’d say ‘why are you doing that? Be yourself, relax, be the guy you were in Formula 3 with e♊arly turning, incredible feel for the rotation point of the car, where has it gone?’

“I am not sure Fred would say 🐽th⛄at. I don’t know why he hired him.

“I am guessing he hired him becauꦚse it wa﷽s a good brand decision, I guess.

“If Carlos Sainz was in that car, he’d be doing at least as good a job as Lewis, if not better. He’d probably have done a💝 better job at Suzuka.”

Lewis Hamilton ‘thinks about everything more’

💧Age has been c𝄹ited by Windsor as a factor for the seven-time Formula 1 champion’s decline.

“Lewis is 40 years old,” he said. “Because of that, he thinks about everything more. He is impervious to what the press says, he’s been around long enough not to listen to what anyone says. That’s not🐼 an issue at Ferrari.

“But he thinks about things🐼 m꧂ore, as you do when you get older.

“If you🎐’re 21, you just do it on gut instinct. That’s𒈔 the difference now with Lewis. He’s at an age where he’s gone to Ferrari and he’s thinking about things more.”

The key problem at Ferrari is their in꧋ability to ꧙run their cars low enough. Hamilton hinted that his car was more impacted than Leclerc’s, and he is awaiting a fix.

Italian media reported that Ferrari will bring something to Bahrain to address Ha🅰milton’s problem.

But Windsor said: “I cannot imagine in a million years that if Charles is running a lower ride-height, and Lewis s🐭ays to his engineers ‘I want the same as Charles’, his engineers are saying ‘no’.

“I can't imagine that woul🐬d be happening so I don’t understand.

“The instability in the rear? Yes, it’s not great, but does he think Charles doesn’t have instability? It𝔍’s an unstable car when you ta🎃ke downforce out.

“Is the rear end of the Red Bull glued to the r🃏oad? Talk to Yuki Tsunoda o🥃r Liam Lawson.

♎“Lewis has driven a difficult car for so long now that he’s possibly shocked the Ferrari is not better than the Mercedes. Indeed, it is𒀰 worse than the Mercedes if he can’t catch Antonelli.”