It is not being the season dreamed by Lewis Hamilton at its premiere with Ferrari. The heptacampeon of the world seems not to adapt to SF-25, is far behind its teammate, Charles Leclerc. The British occupies the seventh place of the championship With 31 points while his partner Leclerc is fifth with 47. From his triumph in the race to China Sprint, Mercedes’s expilot does not raise his head.
A lousy start that has unleashed very hard criticism from Italy. “It is well below expectations,” said the Gazzeta dello Sport, one of the most important means in Italy. In addition, he said that “Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari are not getting along” and that the English “is in a tunnel without exit.”
Despite the expectation generated around his arrival at the Scuderia and his victory in the China Grand Prix Sprint, British’s performance has been inconsistent, feeding criticism and generating rumors about their possible withdrawal.
“I am not surprised”
Now the Spanish Carlos Sainz has been to rule on the situation of the British in his former team. William’s pilot has affirmed that “he is not surprised” the problems of his substitute in Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton.
The seven times world champion He replaced Sainz as a teammate in Charles Leclerc by 2025, but Shanghai’s sprint is the only time Hamilton has defeated Monegasco on the five race weekends so far.
Sainz also had problems against his new teammate, Alex Albon, since the last time Saudi Arabia was the first Grand Prix in which he beat his Williams counterpart.
Therefore, it is not surprising the four times winner of the race that he and Hamilton have initially had problems against their teammates, believing that it will take time to recover.
“It doesn’t surprise me at all”Sainz said before the Miami Grand Prix this weekend. “I expected it for me and I expected it with him.”
The disadvantage with your classmates
“Because when you face two teammates like us, Alex and Charles, they know the team in the heart and are already performing to the maximum that the car can perform. So you can only do it a little better or equal to them. You cannot arrive suddenly and be two or three tenth faster, because it is impossible. They are already at the limit of the car. When you join a new team and both you and everyone around you expect you to be at that level, you know it will take time. They know much more than you. It will take time, and as soon as you complete that process and reach that level, the better “underlines in statements to Autosport.
There are many reasons why Sainz believes that patience is necessary to be as fast as his new teammates, since the Spanish said there are “15 things that have to relear.”
“You cannot imagine the amount of variation, variability just to get the car to reach a similar return time in completely different ways,” Sainz added.
“I am testing the high motor braking in Williams to see if it works, I am testing the bass, I am testing differential maps, but I am testing everything every weekend just to see what the car likes and what does not. There are things that adapt to your style, others that do not, and I think it is that fight and that process that I enjoy and that you are often going to make mistakes. But as long as you enjoy it and accept it, you know that you are going to make mistakes sometimes, but also, when you click and think ‘this works’, it will actually be a moment Eureka that will make you feel good. ”
Sainz has not yet had his “great moment” and warns Hamilton that it is possible that Do not arrive soon for either.
In fact, Williams Corridor warns the British to learn a new team, a new car and completely new processes could take more than six months.
However, the British seems to be little patience.
