Jenson Button: “Lewis Hamilton hurts to be slower than his partner”

The 2009 champion spoke about the news of heptacampeón, who fails to fight forward with his Ferrari.

Jenson Button knows Lewis Hamiton well. The F1 champion with Brawngp, the Cinderella of the 2009 World Cup, and today Cadillac pilot at the Wec, was a partner of the heptacampeón for three seasons in McLaren (2010-2012). These days, Button divides his time between long -term races and his role as an analyst at the Sky chain. From his microphone, he performed an analysis of the present of Lewis, who since this year is a Ferrari pilot.

“Lewis is a different character now than it was when we were teammates,” Jenson said in Miami, Race in which the seven-time world champion suffered with the lack of performance of his SF-25, he had crossings on the radio with his track engineer with messages that were direct to those in charge of the strategy and barely fought for a seventh place (he was finally eighth).

“When we were colleagues, if I was disinfiled, the next day I was outside, about their heels and super fast. I think it hurts to be slower than your partner. Lewis Hamilton is not so. He is a winner, ”Button added.

In the six races he has with the Scuderia, his highest peak lived in the Sprint of China, where he got a great triumph. The rest were more headaches than anything else. In classifications, he lost with Charles Leclerc in five of the six appointments disputed and in the competitions, he was all behind Monegasco. Hamilton never managed to feel comfortable with the soil effect chassis that came into force in 2022, had already suffered in the last three seasons in Mercedes. By 2026 a new regulation change will arrive.