Former F1 driver Derek Daly does not believe Ferrari is benefiting from its driver line-up this year due to both competitors having similar approaches.<\/p>\n
Ferrari signed Lewis Hamilton from Mercedes, commencing a new career chapter for the seven-time world champion.<\/p>\n
Hamilton joined Charles Leclerc at the team and entered the year hoping to challenge for the title after Ferrari narrowly missed out on a constructors’ championship last season.<\/p>\n
However, Ferrari is yet to secure a race win this campaign and Hamilton has not even bagged a podium finish across the 18 grands prix held so far.<\/p>\n
Speaking exclusively to RacingNews365, Daly highlighted an F1 team benefits from having drivers who have two distinct styles and asserted the current Ferrari duo are too alike.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery team that operates at the highest levels, in my opinion, has two drivers that are opposite types of skills,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstant reflex, in other words, drive the wheels off anything, anytime.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhenever they’re in the car, the car is going as fast it can possibly go.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then you have a feel-sensitive driver who can read it, report on it, give feedback, the engineers rely on him and then he can develop a fast car.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne pushes and feeds off the other. Right now, Ferrari has two instant reflex guys.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t believe either driver is giving the feedback to the engineers to build a faster car, and it will not change next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo with those two brilliantly fast, instant reflex guys, I don’t believe they will ever get enough feedback to develop and build cars that are fast enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tFerrari in the ‘most trouble’ of any F1 team<\/p>\n
Hamilton joined Ferrari as the most successful driver in F1 history with more wins, podiums and pole positions than any driver.<\/p>\n
However, the seven-time champion’s struggles haven’t been exclusive to this year as his final seasons with Mercedes were spent further down the pecking order.<\/p>\n
Hamilton has signalled his excitement to see the end of the regulation cycle at the end of the campaign – but Daly does not see the situation improving for Ferrari next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cFerrari is in the most trouble of any team on the grid,\u201d Daly declared.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t believe they’re going to make the moves necessary to fix it. Lewis Hamilton is one of the greatest success stories F1 has ever seen.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is solely responsible for taking F1 to places they’ve never been – like the fashion world. He was the stature of a champion, unlike anybody that I remember ever.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way he carried himself, the way he dressed and how he drove. Those days are over. They’re never going to come back.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a time in every athlete’s life where your instincts and reflexes are never as good as they were 15 years earlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo those days are gone for Ferrari. To bring Hamilton there was a marketing decision, I have to believe, not a pure racing decision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former F1 driver Derek Daly does not believe Ferrari is benefiting from its driver line-up this year due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":["post-204261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}