Lewis Hamilton: Can a Ferrari driver retire earlier than expected after Hungary’s “non -abstract” evaluation? | F1 news

Luis Hamilton’s first campaign with Ferrari fell on a new depths in the Grand Prix of the Hungarian award, where the world champion seven times announced “useless” during the amazing last weekend.

Hamilton arrived in the summer vacation for his first season in red through the qualifiers and reaching the twelfth place in The Hungaroring, a circuit with eight standard victories and nine polar positions.

The 40 -year -old show was disappointing in a path where he had a lot of success was the latest evidence that he did not have a car that failed to put it on the platform on 14 Grands Prix.

The best moment came in the Hamilton season when he took the enemy column and victory in the second round of China, but it was largely dark in full coordination. Hamilton, his teammate Charles Licerier, has 10-4 in qualifying and 11-2 in races, while Monegasque has already scored five platforms this season.

Hamilton Q2 on Saturday was very disappointing for him in itself, but the fact that Leclerc has surprised McLarens, apparently to take the pole clearly to the British disgust with itself.

He asked in an interview after the session with Sky SPORTS F1 To explain his “every time” on the radio after he got out of the qualifiers, Hamilton said he was talking about himself instead of any problem with the car.

Then he described himself as “useless” before he indicated that Ferrari should “may change the driver.”

While Hamilton was often incomplete in interviews, especially in his last two seasons in Mercedes before joining Ferrari, we were supposed to see a sports winning holder publicly spoiling himself in such terms.

The comments also led many in the ring to ask whether Hamilton might consider ending his multi -year contract with Ferrari before the planned.

Why does Hamilton retire earlier than expected?

If you are a fan of Hamilton worried that he is very desperate, he may consider not returning to the last ten races of the season, starting with the Dutch Grand Prix at the end of August, most likely you can relax.

After the Sunday race in Hungary, he was asked about his direct future and answered: “I look forward to returning. I hope to return.”

It seems unlikely that Hamilton will return to see the rest of the season, but if it is possible to continue in a similar way, his desire to return in 2026 must be interrogated.

When the Rare Heights 105 -time athletes have seen the numbers that are unlikely to be unlikely to be attractive to the midfield.

Its qualifiers are a great concern, as George Russell last season and Leclerc dominate this season. The race pace seemed generally more competitive, but it was often outside the position on the network so that it is difficult to assess what he could do from a better starting point.

Time is attached to each athlete – regardless of Fernando Alonso, apparently – and if Hamilton really believes he became “useless”, or at least that his powers have deteriorated significantly, it is difficult to know why he continued.

He succeeded in a large group of projects outside this sport, as it appeared for the first time in the production of cinema earlier this year on Bootbuster inspired by F1 after things went well.

Hamilton has many other emotions, including not limited to charitable work, fashion and music, which will undoubtedly keep him as his helmet is hanging.

What will Hamilton remain as dull?

The first part is clear. Hamilton is still chasing the eighth drivers championship, which would create him from Michael Schumacher.

In the words of his former president in Mercedes Toto Wolf, Hamilton has a “incomplete work” stems from the controversial conditions in which the eighth title was deprived in 2021.

With his motivation, it is not in doubt, the biggest question now is whether Hamilton still believes he is able to achieve this goal.

There are two factors that must include “goats” for at least one full season in 2026.

The first is the fact that he was adapting to Ferrari with a largely different properties with Mercedes, who used to over the past 12 years.

In addition to having to learn SF-25, there is also the fact that it contains some problems. Leclerc was registered in the cockpit on Sunday, where he moved from the dispute to victory to fourth place as a result of what many believed that Ferrari had to raise the tire pressure – thus the high riding of his car – a mid -race race to avoid the possibility of unproduction to wear excessive wooden plate.

If Hamilton jumped in 2025 McLaren, he was clearly outperforming Lando Norris or Oscar Bayastiri, then this would be more important than his inability to deal with the defective Ferrari.

The second decisive element that will definitely convince Hamilton to take another rift in glory is that the SF-25 and the rest of 2025 cars will be forgotten soon, with the different design regulations radically and a major change in the engine next year.

The total re -appointment means that there is a possibility that McLaren is raped as a dominant power of F1, with the likes of Ferrari and Mercedes full of hope.

Some also believe that moving away from ground cars has been competed since the last base has changed at the end of 2021 can help Hamilton, as it is likely to have the driving style required to get the best in these models that do not suit it.

Wolf: Hamilton should not go anywhere

There are very few people – perhaps not even a person – in the ring they can claim that they know Hamilton as well as Wolf.

Therefore, the Austrian evaluation of his friend and the previous colleague may be the most interesting.

He spoke after the Sunday race in Hungary, he said: “Louis has incomplete works in F1, and in the same way that Mercedes was less than this last year on this last group of regulations since 2022, we have never been happy with the cars of ground impact.

“In the same way, it may be associated with the driving style.

“It shouldn’t go anywhere. Next year we have completely new cars, completely different to push new power units that need a smart way to manage energy.

“This is absolutely for Lewis. I hope it will stay for many other years, and certainly next year will be important.”

On whether the eighth title is still a reality for Hillton, Wolf added: “If he has a car that gives him confidence in what he wants, then yes.

“If he has a car that does not give him the reactions he wants, and that is the series of past few years, and it seems to be in Ferrari (it’s) worse, then no.

“But you ask me if he has, definitely he has.”

Whether the beginning of the end of the end, which may have started earlier than many, or a luster before a glorious conclusion, F1 fans should be sure to taste what is great at work while they are still able to do so.

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