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Lewis Hamilton's stint astatine Ferrari has not gone to program connected the way and fans noticed his frustrations yet again up of the Belgian Grand Prix.
While the lucrative determination looked acceptable to bring Hamilton backmost into title contention, helium is yet to triumph a contention with the Scuderia and has not adjacent made a podium successful the 2025 season.
The 40-year-old did good successful pugnacious conditions to decorativeness 4th astatine his location lawsuit astatine Silverstone a fewer weeks and was hoping to footwear connected astatine Spa-Francorchamps pursuing a little break.
However, helium finished successful 18th spot successful sprint qualifying earlier coming 15th successful Saturday's sprint contention - which was won by Max Verstappen for the archetypal clip successful the 2025 season.
Ferrari teammate Charles LeClerc came 4th but Hamilton had a clip to hide - spinning astatine the chicane during his last flying lap successful SQ1 and failing to marque the 2nd qualifying signifier arsenic a result.
In Saturday's sprint, the seven-time satellite champion was heard telling his squad connected the radio that helium had "no rear already" - again encountering different contented with his car.
It was a akin communicative for Hamilton, with fans weighing successful connected his struggles continuining.
Lewis Hamilton has not had an enjoyable clip connected the way with Ferrari of late. Image: Getty
One idiosyncratic connected X wrote: "Wow, Hamilton's Ferrari saga conscionable keeps serving up delicious caller lows with each race, doesn't it? He should discontinue from Formula1."
A 2nd said: "Do we deliberation Lewis (Hamilton) has mislaid involvement successful F!?? helium seems v lack-lustre since moving to Ferrari and not being capable to get the results helium wants , look astatine his sprint contention contiguous (Spa) p15?
A 3rd added: "Ferrari is the pit that they’ve dug for lewis hamilton bc what benignant of suffering is this? it’s amended to thrust spell kart oregon helium mightiness arsenic good usage his legs to run. Useless car."
Hamilton reacts to Ferrari struggles
Reacting to further trouble connected the track, Hamilton told Sky Sports: “Well, the affirmative is I didn’t rotation and I did determination forward, but it was a truly pugnacious race. We were each successful the DRS train, which was unfortunate, but I’ve decidedly learned a batch astir the upgrades that we have.
"I was conscionable reflecting — portion of the upgrade Charles [Leclerc] has had since Montreal — and you saw the clang that helium had there. It was akin to thing that I experienced yesterday.”
Though Hamilton was downbeat, helium did explicit optimism for qualifying and Sunday's contention but admitted alterations needed to beryllium addressed imminently.
Hamilton is inactive searching for his archetypal podium astatine Ferrari. Image: Getty
He added: “So it’s conscionable astir fine-tuning it. Yesterday was the archetypal clip moving it for maine and I deliberation present it’s conscionable astir fine-tuning it. We tin marque immoderate changes betwixt present and quali. My existent gait successful [Sprint] quali was beauteous bully — not truthful much, I would say, successful the contention — but presumption is evidently important here. I’m hoping for a amended effect today.”
Hamilton is sixth successful the operator rankings, with Ferrari 2nd to McLaren successful the squad standings.
