Former Haas F1 team principal Guenther Steiner has criticised Lewis Hamilton for referring to himself as “useless” in Hungary, calling it the “attitude of giving up”.<\/p>\n
Hamilton entered the summer break with a disastrous Hungarian Grand Prix, a venue he holds the record at for most pole positions and victories.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The seven-time world champion found himself eliminated in Q2 and started in 12th, the position he eventually finished the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Following qualifying, Hamilton shocked the paddock by declaring that Ferrari needed a new driver, describing himself as “useless”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He remained downbeat after the grand prix, with Steiner not liking the 105-time race winner’s attitude. In Steiner’s eyes, Hamilton did not present himself like a driver who has secured seven F1 drivers’ titles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Whilst the Italian acknowledged that the Briton is clearly “struggling”, he insisted that speaking about himself so negatively to the media was not the correct approach.<\/p>\n
“I mean, how can you come out being seven-time world champion saying ‘I’m useless’? It’s not his performance, I do not care about that – I’m not going into his performance,” Steiner explained on the Red Flags podcast.<\/p>\n
“He’s struggling. At some stage in our life, we all struggle a little bit. I mean I still struggle, I always struggle, but coming out and saying ‘oh I’m useless’, I think that’s the wrong attitude. For me, I don’t like the attitude of giving up.<\/p>\n
“It’s an attitude that people should feel sorry for you. But for me, it’s like if I’m a seven-time world champion, I’ve got enough confidence that I know that I’m not useless. I just need to work harder and go back to get my mojo back.<\/p>\n
“It’s one of these things, but coming out saying ‘I’m useless’ for me it was a little bit \u2026 I mean a few weeks ago you were sitting down with engineers telling them what to do, and now you’re coming back and saying ‘I’m useless’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Just focus on what you are good at, which is driving a race car, because he’s good, he’s a seven-time world champion.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Haas F1 team principal Guenther Steiner has criticised Lewis Hamilton for referring to himself as “useless” in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59722,"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-59721","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\/59721","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=59721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}