Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari: What will success look like for seven-time world champion at Italian team?
In 2024, Hamilton was fully overtaken by teammates for the first time in his career, ending a lap of George Russell in a 19-5 season with an average deficit of 0.171 seconds.
Although both won two games, Hamilton scored 22 points in the championship game.
This is a confusing situation as both matched closely in qualifying in 2022 and 2023, with one gaining a year-long lead in the championship game.
Most importantly, Hamilton struggles more than Russell in terms of Mercedes traits in 2024.
The car has understeered. The way to offset this is to swipe after entering to facilitate access to the internet. But doing so creates rear tire temperature, which reduces grip, a problem that increases over time. Hamilton and Russell have poor processing power.
Most importantly, no doubt Hamilton can get too hard at the end of the qualifying match due to his frustration in his qualification deficit. This led to errors, which further damaged his performance.
Mercedes engineers believe that the general characteristics of the current generation of cars and their general characteristics of the ground design concept are not combined with the styles of previous generations of cars.
But just because the situation last year doesn’t mean that this year will be the same at Ferrari. It may depend on the behavior of the car.
Again, it is impossible to know the impact of psychology – Hamilton had to do a year with Mercedes, the longest season in history, knowing he left at the end of the season and his heart worked elsewhere.
certainly Vasseur believes this is too important to ignore. Hamilton also had the same opinion.
