{"id":259182,"date":"2025-11-03T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/259182\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:00:11","slug":"hamilton-doesnt-blame-f1-fans-for-expecting-more-in-debut-ferrari-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/259182\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton ‘doesn’t blame’ F1 fans for expecting more in debut Ferrari season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton<\/a> revealed he \u2018doesn\u2019t blame\u2019 Formula 1 fans for not understanding how long it would take for him to become a success at Ferrari<\/a> after a disappointing 2025 campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The seven-time world champion made a blockbuster move to the Italian outfit this year, after 12 successful seasons with Mercedes<\/a>\u00a0which yielded six titles adding to his 2008 crown with McLaren<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Hamilton has largely found it tough at Ferrari, as he is sixth in the championship, 64 points behind team-mate Charles Leclerc<\/a>, and yet to score a grand prix podium after 20 rounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His Shanghai sprint win proved to be an anomaly, but optimism is still high for the 40-year-old because F1 will introduce a new ruleset in 2026 which provides the opportunity to start from scratch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So when Ferrari Magazine told Hamilton that those familiar with F1 should know how long it takes to adapt to a new team, the Briton said: \u201cThat\u2019s not many people. Only when you\u2019re inside a team can you really, truly understand how it works and how F1 works.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t imagine how the machine really operates otherwise. I\u2019ve been in F1 for so long, but when I came to this team it really was different again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I don\u2019t blame people for not knowing. All I can do is continue to focus on the things that I can control. How I prepare, and work with the team. How I show up each day and stay positive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Lewis <\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari<\/p>\n

Photo by: Bryn Lennon \/ Formula 1 via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Hamilton spoke about the \u201ccultural differences\u201d at Ferrari and how it\u2019s not the first time that he and his colleagues have had to adapt to one another, with Niki Lauda<\/a> being a previous example.<\/p>\n

Lauda was a non-executive chairman at Mercedes<\/a> and instrumental in persuading Hamilton to make the shock move from McLaren for 2013, with the pair then forging a close friendship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That was despite a previous conception, as Hamilton revealed \u201cNiki was part of a world that couldn\u2019t adapt to me being different\u201d when he made his F1 debut in 2007. It\u2019s because Hamilton turned many heads given his working-class, mixed-race background that isn\u2019t typical of somebody within the championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He quickly removed any doubts though, particularly those of Lauda who won his first F1 title with Ferrari 50 years ago before more championship glory in 1977 and 1984.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI heard negative things, though I\u2019d always had an admiration for him as a three-time world champion,\u201d said Hamilton of Lauda, who died in 2019 at the age of 70.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s one of the true icons of our sport. Then he\u2019s on the phone telling me why I should come to the team and then when we finally met we had a really good conversation. He said, \u2018you\u2019re just like me, you\u2019re a racer to the core\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t until we had that meeting that those barriers came down, that the stereotyped view he may have had was dealt with. After that we would travel to races together and he\u2019d fly us places all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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