Ferrari staff are not willing to admit one thing about Lewis Hamilton after his ‘worst season’ claim

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Lewis Hamilton continues to cut an increasingly dejected figure in the F1 paddock, the longer that his first season as a Ferrari driver in 2025 has not gifted him any positives.

The Scuderia welcomed Hamilton to Maranello ahead of the 2025 F1 season, as he replaced Carlos Sainz in what they hoped could be a title-winning line-up with Charles Leclerc. But an endless run of woe has proven the pride of Italy’s premature optimism to be very misplaced.

Rather than fighting for the 2025 constructors’ title, Ferrari are only fighting to finish second and will go into the final two rounds with 53 and 13-point deficits to Mercedes and Red Bull. Leclerc and Hamilton also cannot rank higher than P5 and P6 in the 2025 drivers’ standings.

Seven-time F1 champion Hamilton dubbed 2025 his “worst season ever” after the Las Vegas Grand Prix last Sunday, as well. It marked his latest glum revelation, after Hamilton admitted that he is living a “nightmare” at Ferrari after the Sao Paulo Grand Prix in the previous race.

Ferrari are not willing to admit signing Lewis Hamilton was a mistake

The 2025 season is likely to yield Hamilton’s worst points total so far since F1 introduced the current scoring system in 2010. He has only scored 152 points in 22 rounds, of which he also earned 21 through the first five of this year’s six F1 Sprints with the last one coming in Qatar.

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Hamilton is also still to earn a Grand Prix podium as a Ferrari driver, let alone win a race with the Maranello natives. But Soy Motor reports that Ferrari’s staff are not willing to admit that signing Hamilton was a mistake, and nor does he want to quit the Scuderia or Formula 1 yet.

The record 105-time Grand Prix winner and 104-time polesitter does not want to walk away from Ferrari and F1 altogether through the back door after, by his own admission, the worst season of his 19-year career. Hamilton has never failed to earn a podium in a season before.

Lewis Hamilton’s first year at Ferrari is set to mark his worst season in F1

Hamilton’s first year as a Ferrari driver has already returned his longest podium drought thus far, with the record 202-time podium finisher without a rostrum across the past 24 races. He last made a podium with P2 in the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix before he then quit Mercedes.

Ferrari celebrated when Hamilton won the Sprint in China in round two of the 2025 season, and he finished third in the Miami Sprint. But his best Grand Prix results are just P4 in Imola (round 7/24), Austria (R11), Britain (R12) and the US (R19), despite Leclerc’s seven podiums.

And Hamilton qualified last on pace for the first time in his F1 career at the Las Vegas GP last week, before finishing the race in P8 due to McLaren’s double disqualification. But Hamilton rejected claims that he could leave F1, straight after branding 2025 his “worst season ever”.