Capelli: “Hamilton is alone in Ferrari, he may have been destabilized by unfulfilled requests”

Hamilton in search of answers 2026 will be a crucial year in Lewis Hamilton’s long and successful career. The new regulatory cycle, characterized by the abandonment of ground effect single-seaters, could give him renewed vigor at the age of 41 and after a season in Ferrari which he himself did not hesitate to define as “nightmarish”.
The seven-time world champion is therefore at an important turning point in his adventure in Formula 1, after being clearly beaten by teammate Charles Leclerc. Ivan Capelli sees a lonely Hamilton In an interview granted to Fanpage, the former Formula 1 driver and current Sky commentator, Ivan Capelli, commented on Lewis Hamilton’s situation. The former standard bearer – among others – of Tyrrell, March and Ferrari – explained: “Even in life in the garage, in the box, in the team, it seemed to me that beyond some situations wanted or forced by the television shots, he gave me the idea of being alone. His requests seemed like a way of wanting to be more integrated into the team, more involved. This year it seemed like he never had fun, he never saw joy. His exploits remained isolated, they were the flash of a day.” Natural, for Ivan Capelli, to compare the Hamilton of the Mercedes period with that of Ferrari: “Lewis was used to a team, Mercedes, that always worked for him. Think that he managed to change the color of Mercedes. This makes you understand how heavy it was in there. In a different mechanism, that of Ferrari, there could have been difficulties. He perhaps asked for changes that were never made, he asked for things without having had any feedback, and these things destabilize you. And you drag them out one race later the other and this consumes you”, observed the former Milanese driver.