{"id":167085,"date":"2025-09-29T01:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167085\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T01:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:21:08","slug":"ex-f1-driver-delivers-brutal-takedown-of-spoiled-child-lewis-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167085\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-F1 driver delivers brutal takedown of &#8216;spoiled child&#8217; Lewis Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has been labelled a \u201cspoiled child\u201d who only wins races when he is in the best car, by former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/series\/single-seater\/formula-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a> driver Marc Surer.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton has been stung by an uncompetitive and problem-laden SF-25 car in his first season as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ferrari.com\/en-EN\/formula1\/lewis-hamilton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari driver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His China Sprint Race success excepted, Hamilton has struggled to extract a great deal of performance or positivity from the car, often describing it as \u201calien\u201d to him.<\/p>\n<p>The Brit is yet to score a full Grand Prix podium yet, as the Scuderia is now focusing on its 2026 car, as F1 prepares to switch to a new radical rulebook.<\/p>\n<p>Surer, who drove for teams including Arrows and Brabham, scoring 17 points in a seven-year career, was frank in his assessment of the seven-time World Champion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLewis Hamilton is simply a spoiled child who has always driven the best cars. If the car suits him, he wins hands down,\u201d he told Austrian magazine\u00a0Vollgas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut as soon as he doesn\u2019t have the fastest car, he runs into problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/XPB_1359813_HiRes-1-1024x576.webp.webp\" alt=\"Ferrari faces a dangerous legacy if operations do not dramatically improve in 2026\" class=\"wp-image-224189\"  \/>Lewis Hamilton has faced a myriad of issues in his adaptation to the Scuderia<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss drew comparisons with Fernando Alonso, who he noted performs admirably despite the handicap of a difficult car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [Hamilton] is not like Alonso, who can\u00a0live\u00a0with compromises and gets the most out of every car,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not expect that. I thought he would still shine in the races thanks to his experience. But that is not happening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Surer observed having previously struggled to match former team-mate George Russell at Mercedes, and hinted that now being partnered with Charles Leclerc would be a similar problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the other hand, he already struggled over the past two years alongside George Russell. At Ferrari, he now has an extremely fast team-mate in Charles Leclerc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/2025\/09\/27\/lewis-hamilton-sideswiped-by-ex-ferrari-chief-amid-carlos-sainz-praise\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton sideswiped by ex-Ferrari chief amid Carlos Sainz praise<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has been labelled a \u201cspoiled child\u201d who only wins races when he is in the best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,831,372,6537,832,101,75533,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-167085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-sports","tag-surer","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167085","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=167085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}