Lewis Hamilton has no option: failure or glory in Ferrari
Lewis Hamilton has no margin of error in Ferrari. Or becomes octacampeón of the world of F1 or fails.
Lewis Hamilton has no margin of error in Ferrari. Or it is covered with glory and becomes octacampeón of the world of Formula 1 or fails to be the first monarch of the Scuderia in 18 years.
There are no half stockings, there are no trophies of participation, or pious weights, Lewis Hamilton has to be champion or will be nothing in Ferrari or maybe yes, but only anecdote.
The British arrives with seven titles in the curriculum, 104 victories and 105 pole posations in 18 seasons, precisely the first one who lived, at the time with McLarenit was in 2007 when Kimi Raikkonen He won the last pilot title for Ferrari.
It is already a merit to be contender to the title and possessor of one of the most sought -after seats of the F1, but in Maranello That is not enough and less when you arrive with Hamilton’s history.
The last champions that have failed in Ferrari
Since 1950 that F1 began, Ferrari has had 114 pilots before Hamilton and nine have been category champions to add 15 individual and 16 builders.
A separate case are the pilots who have arrived in Ferrari as champions in other teams and who tried to revalidate their status, dressed in red.
Those who got it were Juan Manuel Fangio in 1956 and Michael Schumacher In 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004, nothing more.
The champions that failed in the attempt form an almost legendary list: Giuseppe Farina, Alain Prost, Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel.
Others ran to Ferrari without being crowned, but and they got it in other teams later: Mario Andretti and Nigel Mansell.
One more group is that of those who first crowned in Ferrari, they left and were again monarchs in other shields: Fangio, Niki Lauda.
The last set is formed by those who were only champions in Ferrari and never again: Alberto Ascari, Mike Hawthorn, Phil Hill, John Sostaes, Jody Scheckter and Kimi Raikkonen.
Hamilton could be part of the elite Fangio-Schumacher or the frustrated Farina-Prost-Alonso-Vettelwe will know that soon.
Leclerc is a cordial enemy
On his way to be a champion, Hamilton will find his teammate, Monegasco as the first and greatest stumbling block Charles Leclerc.
Beyond the love they profess for their pets, there are few things in common between Lewis and Charles and, now, the favors of the Tifosi and Ferrari’s mandamases will be played from John Elkann until Fred Vasseur.
Leclerc arrived in Ferrari as a promise and became the face of the team, the hope of returning to the old glories, especially after he beat Sebastian Vettel. It is or was, we will know that soon, Maranello’s commitment to the present and the future.
By competing against the aguerrido Carlos SainzLeclerc showed that he is deadly and can compete with his coequipero without organizing a war.
On the contrary, Hamilton has suffered in Mercedes with the arrival of George Russell who could never beat categorically.
Lewis is not characterized by being the most sociable of the Coequiperos and Alonso, Rosberg and Russell himself can account for his dry character and sometimes oblivious to work together.
It would really surprise, if the Hamilton-Leclercer duo became half of the pleasant and competitive that what Charles had with Sainz. Lewis is not very friendly with social networks, jocular activations and videos.
That is the least if on the track, with a competitive car as a first requirement, Hamilton begins to reap the triumphs that the Scuderia claims.
If we take as reference the recent results of one and the other, Hamilton is not very well stopped, especially in the last three years.
While Leclerc has 6 victories, 30 podiums and 17 pole posations from 2022 to date, Hamilton only accumulates 2 victories, 20 podiums and 1 pole in the same period.
While Mercedes lived for years of mediocrity since the change of regulation, Hamilton had a performance that made doubting whether with age had entered a descendant spiral in terms of his faculties.
Arrives with 40 years
Lewis Hamilton He has won five of his seven world titles between 30 and 35 years of age, but now that he is a forties in front of himself the stigma that only three people have been monarchs of the F1after fulfilling the four decades and that trio belongs to the distant past of the category, when the pilots were mature, very mature lords.
This is the club composed of Juan Manuel Fangiowhose five titles were between 40 and 46 years; Jack Brabham who made them with 40 in 1966, and Giuseppe Farina, first champion of history in 1950 and 43 years old.
It seems that history and statistics are not on the side of Hamilton, but it is also true that, in these times, with food, preparation and technology, a 40 -year -old athlete has many more opportunities than two or three decades ago.
He is the oldest pilot who has arrived in Ferrari since the 1950s and time, so far he has not forgiven anyone … but that had happened to Tom Brady When the Buccaneers…
Ferrari culture is not for everyone
Another obstacle to Lewis Hamilton They are Ferrari’s bowels. Maranello is a legendary place, but also the cradle of a great bureaucracy and internal politics.
Fred Vasseur seems to have softened the atmosphere that was a pot of crickets in the times of Mattia Binotto. Something that was not seen in harmony since Jean Todt put order and gave himself the golden era with Schumacher.
That does not guarantee that Hamilton will be accepted and manage to amalgamate the wills in the factory.
It will be the eighth or the retirement for Hamilton
There is no more, time, circumstances and the moment dictates that Lewis or drinking it will spill in Ferrari and that this should be his last team in the F1.
Triumph or failure, a fantastic era or the failed anecdote of a risky bet that neither Ferrari nor Hamilton could miss the opportunity to try.
