Lewis Hamilton hit by Double Ferrari Bind as a disconnection problem arises

After more than a year of exaggeration after Lewis Hamilton’s announcement that he would compete for Scuderia Ferrari in 2025, we have finally seen how the pairing of drivers/teams on the track works, and left many fans and experts a bit disappointed.

Many criticism seem explicitly on Hamilton, their age, their attitude, their ability, with a strong feeling that the driver is only responsible for the performance on the track. But Ferrari plays a massive role in this new era of Hamilton, and if this association will work, both The holidays must intensify.

Ferrari also needs to take a step forward for Lewis Hamilton

From the moment Lewis Hamilton announced that, in 2025, he would leave his association for a long time with Mercedes and entered a new era with Scuderia Ferrari, the pressure has been on. A generational talent joins a team that has covered generations; Stories virtually write to themselves.

Unfortunately, not all those stories have been positive.

Firm believers in Hamilton’s ability ask if this exchange of equipment will give you an eighth world championship that breaks records, while detractors have wondered if, at 40 years of age, Hamilton has passed its best time and can only meet a disaster in Ferrari.

And with the driver’s performance in the Australian Grand Prix, many of those more cynical stories have bubbled the surface.

After qualifying, Hamilton admitted to the media that he was having a more difficult time than expected when adapting to Ferrari, which saw him fight in a way that seemed completely the driver of Scuderia for a long time Charles Leclerc.

“It has been a much more slow process for me to really feel the trust in the car,” he admitted. “Like, if you look at high speed everywhere, I have been depressed all weekend to Charles, and I have had it from the first moment.”

He even added: “I sincerely thought I was more advanced than I was and then I got here for P1, and I thought: ‘I still have a way to go.'”

Such were the words of a man who aligned eighth on the network. The detractors who are looking for another opportunity to argue that their pessimism was perfectly justified indicated to Hamilton’s appointments as proof that the seven -time champion is out of their depth, forgetting or possibly ignoring, that Hamilton was aligning with his teammate.

And if the qualification was messy, then the race itself was closer to a disaster. While his teammate Leclerc could quickly get rid of Alex Albon Williams at the beginning, Hamilton passed the return after caught behind a car with which he was expected to shoot easily.

As the Grand Prix progressed, Hamilton routinely asked his new racing engineer Riccardo Adami to leave the driving to him, to stop intervening with suggestions or driving tips. While Ferrari was looking for the boxes’ stop time, all critic when the rain came in the last stages of the race, the British was silently furious, saying: “Did you think you said that it was not going to rain much? He lost a great opportunity there.”

After a stop in boxes, Hamilton returned to the track in Ninth. In the final stages, Oscar Piastri passed over, leaving the new star in Scarlet to finish in the tenth place.

While he lamented with Sky Sports F1 after the race, “For me, I am grateful to have kept it out of the wall, because there is really where I wanted to go most of the time. But much to get him out of him, and also acclimatize to the new power unit in wet conditions, all the configurations that requires a different way of driving, a different configuration in the steering wheel.

“Obviously, I went out all the time I could, I put my mind at one time, and I think that only guides it in terms of how more the rain approached just missing there. So I think we got lost. “

Then the criticism came: Lewis Hamilton is not only disappointed to Ferrari, but clearly has already passed his best moment.

But where is the recognition that Formula 1 is a team sport? What Ferrari has so much to learn about Hamilton and Hamilton about Ferrari?

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Regardless of his performance, Hamilton was in a double vision, damn whether he won the race (Well, he is a world champion seven times, the goat; Winning in the debut with Ferrari is a base level expectation), cursed if he did not (He is a world champion seven times, the goat; Surely I should be able to catch up immediately).

What both evaluations leave on the table is the fact that the races is a team sport, and that Scuderia Ferrari is so responsible for presenting to Australia with a winning mentality of the race as its pilots, and that both the team and the driver will need time to understand how to work better with each other.

The preparations for Scuderia operation 2025 began last year, during a period in which Hamilton was still contractually employed by Mercedes and, therefore, could not offer information about the design of the car. The first sketches evolved in anticipation that Hamilton joined the team, but without his direct contribution.

Naturally, there will be a learning curve since Hamilton understands what the SF-25 can do, already measure that design and engineering teams progressively update the car throughout the year based on his comments from his partner and his teammate Charles Leclerc.

Because it joins a new team for the first time in more than a decade, Hamilton is not only learning a new car, but is learning to work with a completely new group of people, which means understanding their processes, routines, peculiarities and general temperament. At the same time, all those Scuderia employees are also learning to work with a man who inevitably has more specific expectations than younger pilots who have competed with the team in recent years.

Mechanics and engineers must learn to prepare a car that provides Hamilton with the intuitive ability to maximize performance, and Hamilton must learn to communicate what he needs.

Riccardo Adami, Hamilton’s racing engineer, must learn what type of information is looking for Hamilton during a race, and when to deliver it to the driver, while Hamilton must learn how this new voice on his radius transmits performance metrics and then request any alteration he may need.

Scuderia Ferrari’s strategists must learn to elaborate a boxes strategy around Hamilton’s specific driving style, while Hamilton should know when to question that strategy or suggest a different way to follow.

Ferrari must also learn to put aside any ego that he may have thanks to his longevity and success in Formula 1, while Lewis Hamilton will have to do the same.

With such strict limitations in preseason tests, there is no way that no one in Scuderia Ferrari understands each other until the lights come out on the day of the race.

Two parts with high expectations and well -defined operational procedures are learning to feel each other in the heat of the battle, and instead of trying to blame one part or another, fans and experts should focus on the historical fusion that we are witnessing in these two Motorsport titans that try to understand each other.

Lewis Hamilton is seven times world champion. He is a driver who has shot at surprising heights largely due to his ability to extract the greatest amount of a formula 1 machine, but, critically, he is not a magician, nor is he the only man in his team who must meet the day of the race.

When the technological wonders that are modern Formula 1 cars arrive at the racing track and the show of the season begins, it can be easy to forget the deeply human elements of sport in the middle of the entire show. Yes, the car must be fast, but perhaps even more important, the driver and his team need to speak the same language. In fact, he goes even further: the driver and his team must anticipate What the other will say, do or think.

The data, the telemetry and the weight of the expectation can only take it so far in Formula 1. The success is found in the subtleties of the human interaction between the driver and the hundreds of team employees that create the infrastructure that puts the driver on the race track every weekend.

It should not surprise that two sport monoliths are more difficult than expected to face each other. It is as if Lewis Hamilton has moved to a different country; Would you really surprise you to know that there was still a small persistent cultural shock after only 10 weeks?

I will leave you with this: when Lewis Hamilton first joined Mercedes in 2013, he did it as a desperate world champion for recovering a winning streak that had defined him on the world stage, then he slid down his fingers. Hamilton took until the tenth race of the season to win a race, and even then, his performance during the rest of the season was nothing to write.

But when 2014 arrived with a regulatory marine change, Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes had an intimate understanding with each other. They came to anticipate the movements of others. They had built a new program that failed with an opening retirement of the season, leaving critics to ask: “Shouldn’t Hamilton and Mercedes be better than this now?”

During the next seven years, Mercedes and Hamilton made history.

Let’s not be so fast to rule out Lewis Hamilton’s marriage/Scuderia Ferrari yet. Not when the story has just begun.

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