Where is the pre-season hype, the honeymoon, the all-consuming madness? Right now, there's a Charles Leclerc, who wrings out of a mediocre Scuderia Ferrari great performance week after week. And there's Lewis Hamilton...
Who suffers. And more and more, and apart from the only sprint race victory, he is constantly falling behind in the points race - even the young Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli, who replaced him, is ahead of him. And as a result, not only experts close to Ferrari, but also the media friendly to the Reds have started to criticize Hamilton. The Corriere della Sera published an article on the subject under the title "From promise to doubts", highlighting that the British integration will be more difficult than even the worst-case scenario imagined. They add that even rookie drivers such as Oliver Bearman have taken a shorter time to get up to speed, and Hamilton's predecessor Carlos Sainz, who literally suffered a lot and had difficulty finding himself at Williams, was also able to take up the gloves in the last race. According to them, this is causing an extremely awkward situation in Maranello, and not only in a professional sense. Because even the most die-hard Hamilton fans are getting impatient, and the Tifosi as a whole are nervous about the spectacular lack of performance.
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