The seven-time champion is still waiting for his first podium in Ferrari<\/a> colours. His Sprint win in Shanghai seems like a distant memory, especially after the Hungarian GP, where he suffered arguably his worst weekend to date.<\/p>\n Position Drivers’ Championship PointsPts 1 284 2 275 3 187 4 172 5 151 6 109 7 64 8 54 9 37 10 27 <\/p>\n He failed to reach Q2 while teammate Charles Leclerc<\/a> took a shock pole position. Hamilton<\/a> made little progress in the race as he finished where he started in P12.<\/p>\n Hamilton is suffering the same foolish trait as Sebastian Vettel<\/a> as he tries to copy Leclerc\u2019s setups. The Monegasque driver has been with Ferrari since 2019, but his teammate is getting worse and worse as the 2025 season wears on.<\/p>\n Hamilton\u2019s comments in Budapest stunned everyone; his move to Ferrari was supposed to be the fresh start he needed after a difficult end to his time at Mercedes. Instead, he is desperately struggling to find performance at Maranello.<\/p>\n After the race, former McLaren<\/a> coordinator Jo Ramirez spoke privately to Hamilton. He told the Ferrari driver that he could not be \u2018beating himself up\u2019 like he did.<\/p>\n \u201cI spoke to him briefly in Budapest because he was beating himself up so much, I don\u2019t know if you heard,\u201d said Ramirez via ESPN MX.<\/p>\n \u201cWow, you could see him, he was sweeping the floor with his beard, right? And I said: \u2018Lewis, you can\u2019t say that or you can\u2019t do that. [You] had a bad day. Everyone has a bad day at the office, but you\u2019re going to make up for it\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought it was a lot. He\u2019s a guy who has nothing to prove. Seven world championships. If you think about it, he has always been with English teams. He was always with McLaren, then he went to Mercedes. Mercedes is German, but it\u2019s in England.<\/p>\n \u201cAll the engineers are English, the boss is Austrian. In short, the working system has always been English, and now he\u2019s in an Italian team where he doesn\u2019t feel comfortable. The working system is different.<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe he doesn\u2019t notice it or doesn\u2019t want to notice it, but he\u2019s struggling and we can see that. I don\u2019t know what will happen to him. So, if he doesn\u2019t recover, maybe we won\u2019t have him next year, which would be a shame.\u201d<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton\u2019s life outside F1 from net worth to family<\/a><\/p>\n Stefano Domenicali thinks Hamilton will be \u2018very strong\u2019<\/a> in the second half of the season. A hard reset over the summer break could be just what he needs.<\/p>\n Likewise, Jackie Stewart sees \u2018no reason\u2019 why Hamilton cannot succeed at Ferrari<\/a>, but it is clear that the team need to find solutions to his problems.<\/p>\n Hamilton detailed three critical points to Ferrari<\/a> in his private documents to the team, from the team itself to what he thinks about the car. He wants to see changes to the Maranello outfit\u2019s operation, but Piero Ferrari says it is \u2018very complicated\u2019<\/a> to build the Brit a title-winning car.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2178884040-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Mark Sutton\/Getty ImagesFormer McLaren chief Jo Ramirez told Lewis Hamilton he can\u2019t be \u2018beating himself up\u2019 after telling Ferrari to drop him<\/p>\n![\"Lewis](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2227606201-1-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Nicolas Economou\/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesCan Ferrari improve Lewis Hamilton\u2019s woes as exit rumours emerge?<\/p>\n