Lewis Hamilton is now ‘trying’ to make Ferrari change one ‘very’ difficult issue he cannot adapt to

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Ferrari believed they could at least fight for the 2025 constructors’ title after signing Lewis Hamilton, but the Briton has faced the worst start to a season of his F1 career.

The Scuderia started the 2025 F1 season with high hopes given McLaren only beat Ferrari to last year’s constructors’ title by 14 points. Yet while their rivals from Woking built on sealing their first championship since 1998, the Maranello squad are targeting second place at best.

Ferrari even trail McLaren by 191 points after the first 10 rounds of the season, having taken just 183 ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix this weekend. Hamilton has also scored 79 of their points to sit sixth in the F1 drivers’ championship, behind teammate Charles Leclerc in fifth.

Hamilton had also never failed to score a podium finish through the first 10 rounds of a term before moving to Maranello in his 19-year F1 career. And his hopes to reach a rostrum might not be about to improve, as Ferrari doubt their upgrades in Austria will unlock Pirelli’s tyres.

Lewis Hamilton is ‘trying’ to make Ferrari change their methods that Charles Leclerc knows ‘by heart’

Fourth place in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in Ferrari’s backyard, Imola, remains the best result that Hamilton has sealed so far since moving from Mercedes. Yet his problems also go past the circuits, as the 40-year-old has also taken issue with what he has seen in Maranello.

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That is according to AutoRacer, which reports that Hamilton has still not adapted to the new technical methodology he has faced at Ferrari after previously racing exclusively for teams in England. The Briton started his career with six years at McLaren and then 12 with Mercedes.

Driving for Ferrari has presented Hamilton with technical working methods that are different to what he experienced at McLaren or Mercedes. So, having so far failed to adjust, he is now ‘trying’ to make Ferrari favour a new methodology but it is a ‘very’ difficult change to oblige.

It also does not help Hamilton’s endeavours to change Ferrari’s methods that Leclerc knows the Scuderia’s approaches ‘by heart’. The Monegasque joined the Ferrari Driver Academy in 2016 and has driven for the Scuderia in F1 since 2019, after he debuted for Sauber in 2018.

Lewis Hamilton knew ‘everything’ would be ‘different’ when he signed for Ferrari

Hamilton knew ‘everything’ would be ‘different’ at Ferrari compared to his spells at McLaren and Mercedes. Yet while he acknowledged that before the season, it seems that the scale of his adjustment to the technical methods has been too much to overcome in a torrid season.

It has also been said that Hamilton finds Ferrari’s working methods are narrow-minded, with the seven-time F1 champion even clashing with the Scuderia’s engineers at what he believes to be stubbornness. Having to adapt to the Italian crew has been a big culture shock for him.

Ferrari have also seen Hamilton make his feelings perfectly clear over their team radio about his anger over some of their decisions in some races. Hamilton and his Ferrari race engineer Riccardo Adami have regularly clashed when their decision-making has frustrated the Briton.