Hamilton: “Many people have not achieved my success and continue to speak badly of me”

An uphill debut Lewis Hamilton’s debut season at the wheel of Ferrari, in 2025, was certainly not memorable for the seven-time world champion, who only achieved very small satisfactions on the occasion of two Sprint GPs: in China, with pole position and victory, and in Miami, with 3rd place. In the long races, however, Sir Lewis achieved neither a fastest lap in qualifying nor a podium finish, managing to do so (in the latter case) for the first time only at the start of this world championship in China. The feeling with the SF-26 A result that helped the 41-year-old to overcome the curse of negative results with the Maranello single-seater, and which contributed to reaching the provisional 4th place in the general classification while awaiting the Miami GP, scheduled for the beginning of May: “I like driving this car – he commented to the official F1 channels – it’s a car in which I had an important role in developing on the simulator, and I see things that I asked for. I see them in the design, I feel them, and I feel them in a positive way”. Seven-time world champion. In a certain sense, decisive and positive statements from the #44, which at the same time arise as a sort of revenge towards those who had strong doubts about the Briton’s potential: “I see some people who have not even remotely reached my level of success and who continue to speak badly of me – he added without naming names – they still do so now. I feel great to be back, to start this season and to be strong. I continue to prove that I have what it takes.”