Lewis Hamilton has been backed to turn his Ferrari form around by former team mates George Russell and Fernando Alonso after a difficult start to life with the Scuderia.<\/p>\n
Seven-time Formula 1 champion Hamilton<\/a> sparked the driver transfer market into overdrive in February 2024 when he made the shock announcement that he would leave Mercedes and join Ferrari<\/a> following the conclusion of that campaign.<\/p>\n Aside from a victory in the Chinese Sprint<\/a>, however, Hamilton\u2019s dream move has so far had its struggles \u2013 with a downbeat Hamilton even suggesting after Qualifying in Hungary that Ferrari<\/a> needed to \u201cchange the driver\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ahead of the season resumption in the Netherlands, Hamilton dismissed these comments as a \u201cheat of the moment\u201d<\/a> thing.<\/p>\n Asked how he sees Hamilton\u2019s situation, Russell<\/a> said: \u201cWe did speak away from the track before Hungary. I think it’s a tough situation for him, for any driver who doesn’t feel like they are performing to their potential, but F1 is so difficult, and Lewis is a fighter.<\/p>\n \u201cI’m sure he’s going to continue, but I can’t really speak for him. Of course, as a friend, you wish him the best, but as a rival and competitor, you don’t wish too much because we want to beat them!\u201d<\/p>\n Alonso<\/a> partnered with rookie Hamilton at McLaren in 2007 in a bitter campaign where the pair went head-to-head for the Drivers\u2019 title, only to be pipped at the post by Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen<\/a> \u2013 a crown that remains Ferrari\u2019s most recent Drivers\u2019 accolade.<\/p>\n Having also spent five years with Ferrari between 2010-14, Alonso has first-hand knowledge of both team and driver.<\/p>\n Pressed on what advice he would offer Hamilton, he said: \u201cDifficult to say. I think from the outside, you never know for sure what is going on, but Lewis doesn’t need to prove anything.<\/p>\n \u201cHe’s an incredible driver and he will figure out sooner or later to be at the top pace. He and Ferrari will always be a combo that you need to respect a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has been backed to turn his Ferrari form around by former team mates George Russell and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-100622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}