Lewis Hamilton is convinced Ferrari “has absolutely every ingredient” to succeed despite the negative spiral in which he found himself before F1’s summer break.<\/p>\n
The wave of positivity which engulfed Hamilton and the Scuderia earlier this year following his arrival, has long since disappeared.<\/p>\n
Aside from a sprint victory in the second race of the season in China, the seven-time F1 champion has yet to finish on the podium in 14 grands prix this year. In contrast, team-mate Charles Leclerc has scored five.<\/p>\n
Hamilton hit his nadir for this campaign in Hungary, failing to finish in the points for the first time since the event in Shanghai. The 40-year-old vociferously criticised himself, suggesting there would be “tears” during the summer shutdown in his attempt to come to terms with his poor form.<\/p>\n
There is still a period of adaptation Hamilton is going through with Ferrari, and a period of realisation for all concerned that not everything can be transformed in a matter of months.<\/p>\n
In terms of ensuring everybody ultimately pulls in the same direction, speaking to the media, including RacingNews365, Hamilton said: “It’s just trying to understand the environment that you’re in, that you have to adapt.<\/p>\n
“And I think the people you work with ultimately will learn to adapt, to cater to you.<\/p>\n
“This year, there have been so many great things, and the response has been amazing to the steps that we have taken in all areas.<\/p>\n
“The passion and the desire to continue to do better is what’s the most amazing thing. In this team, everyone wants to do better and find ways to be better.<\/p>\n
“That’s why I know this team has absolutely every ingredient that is needed to succeed. I truly believe in that. That’s why I signed.”<\/p>\n
In the build-up to the Belgian Grand Prix the week previously, Hamilton had surprisingly revealed to putting together a dossier on where he felt improvements were required, drawing on his volume of experience with Mercedes, in particular, where he won six of his drivers’ championships.<\/p>\n
There followed the added boost of team principal Fred Vasseur signing a new contract with the team, ending growing speculation that he could be out of a job at the end of the season following Ferrari’s failure to challenge McLaren this season.<\/p>\n
As to whether Vasseur would be in a strong position to act on them, Hamilton said: “It was just ideas, like, ‘Hey, what if we did this?; Have we tried this? If we did this, perhaps we can ease up in certain areas, or we can be better.<\/p>\n
“It’s about having conversations, and Fred has been really responsive.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton is convinced Ferrari “has absolutely every ingredient” to succeed despite the negative spiral in which he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99419,"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-99418","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\/99418","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=99418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}