{"id":108699,"date":"2025-08-31T12:50:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108699\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T12:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:50:05","slug":"lewis-hamilton-told-how-he-should-copy-lando-norris-as-jacques-villeneuve-feels-the-ferrari-driver-is-giving-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108699\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton told how he should copy Lando Norris as Jacques Villeneuve feels the Ferrari driver is \u2018giving up\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lewis Hamilton joined Ferrari with a huge smile on his face, as the Scuderia saw 2025 as the season in which a Formula 1 championship might finally go back to Maranello.<\/p>\n

But both titles seem bound for Woking in the 2025 season, with McLaren<\/a> running away with the constructors\u2019 championship and Oscar Piastri<\/a> fighting his teammate Lando Norris<\/a> for the drivers\u2019 title. Piastri heads into Sunday\u2019s Dutch Grand Prix with a nine-point lead over Norris.<\/p>\n

Max Verstappen of Red Bull sits third in the F1 drivers\u2019 championship<\/a> ahead of round 15\/24 with a 97-point deficit to Piastri. And as the papaya team hold a 299-point lead over Ferrari in second in the teams\u2019 table, Fred Vasseur has conceded the constructors\u2019 title to McLaren<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ferrari\u2019s wait for their first constructors\u2019 title since 2008 is set to continue into the 2026 F1 regulations, with Charles Leclerc<\/a> and Hamilton<\/a> fifth and sixth in the drivers\u2019 standings with deficits of 133 and 175 points to Piastri. Ferrari are also still yet to win a Grand Prix in 2025.<\/p>\n

\"FerrariPhoto by Andrea Diodato\/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesJacques Villeneuve sees a disappointing difference between Lewis Hamilton and Lando Norris\u2019 self-criticism<\/p>\n

Hamilton suggested Ferrari \u201cneed to change driver\u201d<\/a> and that he was \u201cuseless\u201d after the 40-year-old only qualified P12 for the Hungarian Grand Prix, which he finished in P12, before the summer break. At Zandvoort, Hamilton admitted he needed to \u201creset\u201d<\/a> over the summer, too.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton\u2019s life outside F1 from net worth to family<\/a><\/p>\n

SEASONTEAMPOINTSWINSPODIUMS2010McLaren182372011McLaren168242012McLaren142362013Mercedes161152014Mercedes2417112015Mercedes2778122016Mercedes2506112017Mercedes263792018Mercedes2566112019Mercedes2848122020Mercedes30710122021Mercedes221.5 (inc 2 from 1 F1 Sprint)4102022Mercedes146 (inc 1 from 1 F1 Sprint)062023Mercedes164 (inc 4 from 2 F1 Sprints)042024Mercedes150 (inc 10 from 2 F1 Sprints)242025Ferrari109 (inc 14 from 3 F1 Sprints)00Lewis Hamilton\u2019s points after 14 rounds since F1 changed its point-scoring system in 2010<\/p>\n

But Jacques Villeneuve<\/a> sees a disappointing difference between how Hamilton reviews his results for Ferrari to how Norris criticises his performances for McLaren. The 1997 drivers\u2019 champion thinks Hamilton\u2019s tone in his statements suggests the 40-year-old is \u201cgiving up\u201d.<\/p>\n

Villeneuve said on Sky Sports<\/a> F1 (30\/8, 13:11): \u201cThey seem to be doing it in a different way. Lewis seems to just be giving up. That\u2019s different. Lando seems to be judging himself, like, \u2018What can I do better? What did I do wrong, so I can come back stronger?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cHe doesn\u2019t keep it in. So, he doesn\u2019t boil it. Whereas Piastri might be, we don\u2019t know. We say how he\u2019s so cool [and] he doesn\u2019t have any pressure. Maybe he has tonnes of pressure. Maybe more than Lando. We just don\u2019t see it, and he\u2019s digesting it internally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lando Norris has worn his mistakes on his sleeve in the McLaren man\u2019s 2025 F1 title bid\"McLarenPhoto by Jayce Illman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Hamilton\u2019s first campaign with Ferrari has never matched the optimism that the seven-time champion and the Scuderia shared before the 2025 F1 season<\/a> started. Vasseur believed the pride of Italy would fight with McLaren before a wheel turned in anger, but Ferrari have not.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0McLaren driver Lando Norris\u2019 life outside F1 from parents to celebration<\/a><\/p>\n

Position Drivers’ Championship PointsPts 1 284 2 275 3 187 4 172 5 151 6 109 7 64 <\/p>\n

Now, Villeneuve sees \u201cno chemistry\u201d between Hamilton and Ferrari<\/a>, with the Briton having the worst start to a season of his 19-year career. Never before had the Briton failed to make a Grand Prix podium in the first 14 rounds. Hamilton\u2019s best results for Ferrari have been P4s.<\/p>\n

Hamilton\u2019s 109 points so far this year are also the 105-time Grand Prix winner\u2019s lowest since the current points system was introduced in 2010. So, the beaming smile that dominated his face when Hamilton joined Ferrari in January has been destroyed over the last eight months.<\/p>\n

Norris has also beaten himself up throughout the 25-year-old\u2019s title bid. But Villeneuve feels the McLaren man\u2019s self-criticism is a strength, rather than a weakness. Norris called himself \u201cclueless\u201d after qualifying P6 in Bahrain<\/a>, where he recovered to P3 as Piastri won from pole.<\/p>\n

Norris also called himself an \u201cidiot\u201d after the Briton crashed in qualifying in Saudi Arabia, as he tried to match the speed through Turn 4 that Piastri carried in Q1 and Q2. He also noted at Imola that the 25-year-old\u2019s qualifying form in Q3 this term was \u201cjust not good enough\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton joined Ferrari with a huge smile on his face, as the Scuderia saw 2025 as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,826,13207,1737,823,913,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-108699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ferrari","11":"tag-jacques-villeneuve","12":"tag-lando-norris","13":"tag-lewis-hamilton","14":"tag-mclaren","15":"tag-motor","16":"tag-motor-sports","17":"tag-motosport","18":"tag-motosports","19":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}