{"id":177262,"date":"2025-09-29T10:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177262\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T10:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:09:07","slug":"ex-f1-driver-blasts-spoiled-child-lewis-hamilton-in-brutal-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177262\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-F1 driver blasts \u2018spoiled child\u2019 Lewis Hamilton in brutal take"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has been branded a \u201cspoiled child\u201d who only wins races when he has the best car by former F1 driver Marc Surer.<\/p>\n<p>Surer, who failed to win in 82 starts from 1979 to 1986, made the stinging claim about seven-time world champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\/racer\/9\/lewis-hamilton\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamilton<\/a> to Austrian magazine Vollgas.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton has endured a hugely challenging debut season with Ferrari and is yet to achieve a podium finish in 17 grands prix.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old Briton has also been comprehensively outperformed by Ferrari teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\/racer\/889402\/charles-leclerc\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Leclerc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a difficult few years for Hamilton, who has only racked up two victories since missing out on the 2021 F1 world championship to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\/racer\/852\/max-verstappen\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen<\/a> in the controversial Abu Dhabi showdown.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLewis Hamilton is simply a spoiled child who has always driven the best cars. If the car suits him, he wins hands down,\u201d Surer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut as soon as he doesn\u2019t have the fastest car, he runs into problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Alonso comparison drawn<\/p>\n<p>Surer cited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\/racer\/1\/fernando-alonso\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fernando Alonso <\/a>as an example of a driver who maximises his machinery even when it is not competitive, something Surer feels Hamilton does not do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [Hamilton] is not like Alonso, who can\u00a0live\u00a0with compromises and gets the most out of every car,\u201d the Swiss continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not expect that. I thought he would still shine in the races thanks to his experience. But that is not happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Surer also pointed out how Hamilton struggled against former teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\/racer\/912063\/george-russell\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Russell<\/a> in his final two campaigns at Mercedes, and is now being beaten by Leclerc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the other hand, he already struggled over the past two years alongside George Russell. At Ferrari, he now has an extremely fast team-mate in Charles Leclerc,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton appears to have made a breakthrough with Ferrari\u2019s 2025 car since the summer break, though his results have not matched this.<\/p>\n<p>Having crashed out of the Dutch Grand Prix, Hamilton recovered from a five-place penalty to take sixth at his first Italian Grand Prix as a Ferrari driver.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton then finished eighth ahead of Leclerc at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix as Ferrari endured another underwhelming weekend.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton sits sixth in the world championship, one place and 44 points behind Leclerc.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari, meanwhile, have been overtaken by Mercedes and fallen to third in the constructors\u2019 championship with seven rounds to go.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our F1 Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has been branded a \u201cspoiled child\u201d who only wins races when he has the best car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,826,813,816,823,85],"class_list":["post-177262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177262","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=177262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}