Lewis Hamilton has been branded a “spoiled little one” who solely wins races when he has the perfect automotive by former F1 driver Marc Surer.
Surer, who did not win in 82 begins from 1979 to 1986, made the stinging declare about seven-time world champion Hamilton to Austrian journal Vollgas.
Hamilton has endured a massively difficult debut season with Ferrari and is but to attain a podium end in 17 grands prix.
The 40-year-old Briton has additionally been comprehensively outperformed by Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc.
It has been a troublesome few years for Hamilton, who has solely racked up two victories since lacking out on the 2021 F1 world championship to Max Verstappen within the controversial Abu Dhabi showdown.
“Lewis Hamilton is just a spoiled little one who has all the time pushed the perfect automobiles. If the automotive fits him, he wins palms down,” Surer stated.
“However as quickly as he doesn’t have the quickest automotive, he runs into issues.”
Fernando Alonso comparability drawn
Surer cited Fernando Alonso for example of a driver who maximises his equipment even when it isn’t aggressive, one thing Surer feels Hamilton doesn’t do.
“He [Hamilton] will not be like Alonso, who can reside with compromises and will get probably the most out of each automotive,” the Swiss continued.
“I didn’t anticipate that. I believed he would nonetheless shine within the races due to his expertise. However that’s not taking place.”
Surer additionally identified how Hamilton struggled towards former teammate George Russell in his last two campaigns at Mercedes, and is now being overwhelmed by Leclerc.
“Alternatively, he already struggled over the previous two years alongside George Russell. At Ferrari, he now has a particularly quick team-mate in Charles Leclerc,” he concluded.
Hamilton seems to have made a breakthrough with Ferrari’s 2025 automotive because the summer season break, although his outcomes haven’t matched this.
Having crashed out of the Dutch Grand Prix, Hamilton recovered from a five-place penalty to take sixth at his first Italian Grand Prix as a Ferrari driver.
Hamilton then completed eighth forward of Leclerc on the Azerbaijan Grand Prix as Ferrari endured one other underwhelming weekend.
Hamilton sits sixth on the earth championship, one place and 44 factors behind Leclerc.
Ferrari, in the meantime, have been overtaken by Mercedes and fallen to 3rd within the constructors’ championship with seven rounds to go.
