Former F1 driver Martin Brundle wishes the world could “rewind” to post-qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix, to stop Lewis Hamilton from calling himself “useless”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a troubled session at the Hungaroring, the seven-time F1 champion berated himself, urging Ferrari to sign a new driver.<\/p>\n
Despite previously claiming nine pole positions at the Budapest venue, Hamilton was eliminated in Q2 after only managing 12th on the grid. To add to his struggles, Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc secured pole position.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It resulted in a raft of staggering comments from the 40-year-old, who said to Sky F1: “Yeah, I’m useless. Absolutely useless.”<\/p>\n
He later stated: “[The] Team has no problem, you see the car’s on pole, so we’ll need to change driver.”<\/p>\n
It was the most dejected Hamilton had appeared all season, in what has been a troubling first campaign with Ferrari.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Challenges settling into the Italian squad and adjusting to the Scuderia’s culture after 12 seasons with Mercedes were expected.<\/p>\n
However, Hamilton is the only driver in the top seven of the standings without a podium. The Briton has not appeared on the rostrum in 15 races \u2013 a career worst.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brundle wishes the 105-time race winner had not been so hard on himself after qualifying in Hungary, due to concerns that the sharp comments will remain present for a long period.<\/p>\n
“He was down, wasn’t he?” said Brundle on Sky Sports F1. “And I think I found it a very difficult watch, without doubt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I wish we could, for Lewis, rewind to [Saturday] and edit that out for him, because that’ll play out for a very long time, and it was probably better unsaid, but that was his feeling at that moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“He wears his heart on his sleeve, we know that. But yeah, difficult times. And the other [Ferrari], Charles being on pole, that’s very much salt in his wounds.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former F1 driver Martin Brundle wishes the world could “rewind” to post-qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix, to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-50995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50995","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=50995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}