Lewis Hamilton has batted away criticism following his troublesome begin to the 2025 F1 season at Ferrari.
Hamilton’s Ferrari profession has did not reside as much as expectations up to now.
Ferrari have not produced a title-challenging F1 automobile, with Charles Leclerc’s third-place end in Saudi Arabia their solely podium look up to now.
Hamilton has lagged effectively behind teammate Leclerc throughout plenty of weekends.
In Jeddah, Hamilton completed over 30 seconds behind Leclerc.
After the race, it led to a startling revelation from Hamilton that there’s no fast repair and it may very well be a “lengthy season”.
Talking on the FIA press convention in Miami, Hamilton was requested how he offers with individuals questioning him after a lacklustre begin to the yr.
“I simply don’t actually give it some thought,” Hamilton stated. “I attempt to not actually deal with opinions of people who don’t have any perception into really what’s going on – insights from people which have by no means been in my place.
“So yeah, I simply hold my head down and attempt to proceed to benefit from the work that I do with the individuals I work with.”
Hamilton has remained tight-lipped on the place specifically he has been struggling.
The seven-time world champion has proven flashes of tempo all year long.
He took pole for the dash race earlier than dominating the race in Shanghai.
His race tempo throughout the Bahrain Grand Prix was additionally spectacular.
Reflecting on his latest go to to Maranello, Hamilton wasn’t ready to present an excessive amount of away.
“Not notably – I imply, once I joined Mercedes, the primary six months have been powerful getting attuned to working with new individuals,” Hamilton added.
“Clearly, the engineers I am working with now are used to establishing a automobile for a special driver and a special driving fashion, and I am used to driving a automobile with a special driving fashion.
“So it’s a mixture of a bunch of various issues.”
Hamilton wasn’t satisfied that the actual fact Miami is a dash weekend – like China – will play into his palms.
Nonetheless, he did allude to the actual fact the condensed weekend means there’s much less probability of creating incorrect setup possibilities.
“I can’t actually clarify it an excessive amount of. Within the Dash race there’s not an enormous quantity of adjustments you make. I believe the one factor to take from it’s that we didn’t make a variety of adjustments – if any – going from P1 to quali, whereas on all the opposite weekends we’ve been tinkering with the automobile and making it worse,” Hamilton defined.
