F1 fans have backed Lewis Hamilton to snap his long drought without a grand prix podium in the second-half of the season, despite his Ferrari woes.<\/p>\n
After 14 races in 2025, Hamilton is yet to record a grand prix podium for Ferrari, taking a best finish of fourth at Imola, in Austria and in his home British GP. It is the first time in his career he has failed to score a podium before the summer break.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 202-time podium sitter is also on the worst run of his career, having not stood on a grand prix podium in 16 races, stretching back to a second place at the 2024 Las Vegas GP for Mercedes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hamilton’s Ferrari struggles have been well-documented this year, with a particular gripe being the brakes of the Ferrari, which use Brembo materials compared to the Carbon Industrie ones Mercedes uses.<\/p>\n
After a particularly difficult qualifying in Hungary, where he was 12th, Hamilton declared he was “useless” and that Ferrari should look for “another driver.”<\/p>\n
He finished a lapped 12th in that race, but signalled he would be at the Dutch Grand Prix after the summer break, with F1 fans overwhelmingly backing the seven-time champion to score a podium at some point.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the poll, a variety of scenarios were put forward, with no single one achieving an outright majority, but the plurality was achieved by those believing Hamilton would claim just a single podium.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That achieved 31.92% of votes cast, with almost three-quarters of voters, 72.8%, believing he will claim a podium.<\/p>\n
However, nearly one in four voters, 22.69%, believed Hamilton would go through the entire season without a podium.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Check out the full results below and make sure to look out for the next RacingNews365 poll!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"F1 fans have backed Lewis Hamilton to snap his long drought without a grand prix podium in the…\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-99499","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\/99499","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=99499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99499\/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=99499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}