F1 boss Stefano Domenicali has urged former team Ferrari to keep faith with struggling Lewis Hamilton, convinced the Briton will land the greatest of all records.<\/p>\n
Hamilton has endured a rough ride since making his high-profile move from Mercedes, where he won six of his seven drivers’ titles, to Ferrari at the start of the year.<\/p>\n
A sprint victory in the second grand prix weekend of the year in China proved to be nothing more than a false dawn for Hamilton, who has since failed to score a podium in any format, in contrast to team-mate Charles Leclerc, who has five.<\/p>\n
In Hungary, Hamilton endured his worst weekend in Ferrari red, qualifying and finishing 12th. Other than retirements, it was only the fourth time the 40-year-old has been classified outside of the top 10 since the start of the current regulation set in 2022.<\/p>\n
For the record, the other three were the Emilia Romagna and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix in 2022, and last year’s race in Qatar.<\/p>\n
Domenicali, the current CEO and President of F1, and once team principal of Ferrari for six seasons from 2008 to 2014, has urged the Scuderia to have patience with Hamilton.<\/p>\n
The 60-year-old has no doubt that if Ferrari and Hamilton remain loyal to one another, he will go on to become the outright record holder of drivers’ titles.<\/p>\n
“Lewis is a jewel, an incredible athlete,” said Domenicali, speaking to Sky Sports F1.<\/p>\n
“So no matter if it is a difficult moment, he will react, and I am pretty sure he will show the reason why he is here.<\/p>\n
“He wants to achieve his 8th title, and he will triumph again.<\/p>\n
“So stay with Lewis and he will do a great race, and be very, very strong after the summer season.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"F1 boss Stefano Domenicali has urged former team Ferrari to keep faith with struggling Lewis Hamilton, convinced the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-46562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46562","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=46562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}