British driver Marc Soulard said Ferrari made the “wrong decision” to choose Lewis Hamilton over Carlos Sainz, claiming the driver is not as fast as he used to be.
Ferrari will have a new driver duo next season after signing Hamilton to be Charles Leclerc’s teammate in 2025 ahead of the season’s opening race. Lewis Hamilton is not as fast as before.
This solution means the end of the Ferrer Road, which is a corresponding size by acquiring the Australian Grand Prix, and added Mexico to the list last week.
This season, not only in front of the entire field in October, but also in front of Hamilton, which won 189 points, it earned 240 points on the Williams driver’s board.
Like Sainz, Hamilton has also won two races this season, a first at Silverstone and two at Spa, which has seen him surpass Mercedes team-mate George Russell in the drivers’ standings.
But he does trail his compatriot in qualifying where Russell is 15-5 up. Hamilton has only once lost a qualifying head-to-head to a team-mate, that was Nico Rosberg in 2014. It is safer to say that he believes that Ferrari made the “bad” choice to put Hamilton in the car while the Briton slows down.
I would say yes, āsaid the former F1 driver to the Formal Youtube channel1.de. “If Hamilton comes, it will certainly be a very positive story at first glance.
But in the long term, it is not a good decision because Lewis Hamilton is getting older. āWe donāt get faster as we get older, itās just that more experience allows us to do more tricks in the races.
But even if it’s just a few hundredths of a second a year, pure speed is lost.
“That’s why I’m convinced Hamilton isn’t as fast as he used to be.”
But given Hamilton’s ninth victory on home soil at this year’s British Grand Prix, Surer believes the seven-time world champion has proven he still has it when motivated.
That it does make a difference when you are highly motivated,ā he said. āAnd I would say at the moment he is not. “But when he gets to Ferrari, he will. He wants to prove to himself and the world that his decision to drive for Ferrari was the right one. Ā»
