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Lewis Hamilton suffered a bit of a disaster at the Hungarian Grand Prix and heads into the summer break on a bad note.
All weekend, he grappled with his Ferrari car but managed little success. 12th in qualifying was backed up by yet another 12th in the race.
Meanwhile, teammate Charles Leclerc claimed pole position and managed solid points on Sunday, despite suffering from a late chassis issue. The Hungarian Grand Prix could have been so much better for the Scuderia.
Leaving Budapest with their optimism for the second half of the campaign just about intact, the team needs to pull together now more than ever to help rescue Hamilton’s season.
Hamilton needs a ‘radical’ change at Ferrari if he wants to get close to achieving his dreams of an eighth drivers’ championship.
After his lack of pace, F1 fans couldn’t believe what Ferrari told Hamilton mid-race, by asking him to lift and coast.
Lewis Hamilton matches the worst Hungarian GP finish by a four-time Formula 1 champion since Alain Prost
Ferrari created Hamilton’s biggest ‘problem’ in Hungary by starting him on the hard tyre and forcing him to face traffic.
It put him on a tricky path and led him to his worst Formula 1 result with Ferrari. For the first time ever in red, he was classified outside the top 10.
His 12th-place finish also matches the worst result ever by a four-time or more champion around the Hungaroring.
Despite winning the title in 1993, Alain Prost also finished 12th in Hungary, which would be his equal worst result of that season.
Hamilton has developed a Ferrari driving ‘habit’ which may be impossible for the team to cure. Heading into the 2026 F1 regulations, their car will need to follow a very new concept for results to change.
Why did Alain Prost finish so poorly at the 1993 Hungarian Grand Prix?
On a day when Prost had his worst-ever day as a Williams driver, his teammate Damon Hill claimed his first victory in the sport.
The reason why the Frenchman dropped so low? His rear wing needed to be replaced in the pit lane, setting him back seven laps.
His team had underestimated the stress a new part would have on his car, with the overload causing a failure and part replacement.
Determined to take the fastest lap, Prost carried on after his race engineer, David Brown, said this about replacing his rear wing.
“Replacing that is a massive job. Normally it’s the last thing you’d think of doing in the pit lane,” he told Motorsport Magazine.
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