Lewis Hamilton told he’s done something at Ferrari ‘not worthy of his level’ after latest ‘disaster’

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Lewis Hamilton joined Ferrari for the 2025 F1 season believing they had everything to win a title, but the Scuderia will not rank inside the top three of either championship.

The pride of Italy are now locked into fourth place in the F1 constructors’ standings with just 382 points in their account so far. Charles Leclerc and Hamilton are also guaranteed to finish this season fifth and sixth in the F1 drivers’ standings at best, with 230 and 152 points so far.

Rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who replaced Hamilton at Mercedes after his move to Ferrari, can take sixth place in the F1 drivers’ championship at the 2025 season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Antonelli sits on 150 points after 23/24 rounds, and he has taken three podiums.

Hamilton still remains without a Grand Prix podium, let alone a win, for Ferrari, with his best results P4 in Imola, Austria, Britain and the USA. The 40-year-old has also not been higher than P6 in 10 of the past 11 Grands Prix, over which Leclerc took three of his seven podiums.

Lewis Hamilton’s integration at Ferrari is unbefitting of a seven-time F1 champion

Hamilton’s mood has drastically shifted from the hope he held after moving to Maranello for the 2025 F1 season. Back in February, Hamilton declared that Ferrari had “every ingredient” to win a title. Yet 10 months later, now Hamilton admits he is living a “nightmare” at Ferrari.

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Such has been the endless woe that has consumed the seven-time champion that Hamilton has called 2025 his “worst season ever” in F1. But Christian Danner feels Hamilton needs to take some responsibility, as the manner he has integrated himself with Ferrari is unbefitting.

Danner told sport.de: “It’s obviously a never-ending story. But one thing has to be said, it’s an absolute disaster. The way Hamilton integrates into the team, or rather the way he copes with what is available to him, is somehow not worthy of his level.”

Hamilton has given Ferrari documents listing the changes he wants to see them make to be title contenders based on what he experienced at Mercedes. But head of track engineering Matteo Togninalli believes that Hamilton’s relationship with Ferrari is “extremely” positive.

F1’s 2026 regulations are Lewis Hamilton’s chance to ‘redeem himself’

The Qatar Grand Prix was the latest disaster to befall Hamilton amid his miserable first term as a Ferrari driver in 2025. Hamilton bowed out of qualifying in P18 in Qatar, to record back-to-back Q1 exits after he even qualified last on pure pace for the first time ever in Las Vegas.

Hamilton would also only finish the Qatar GP in P12, as Leclerc even settled for P8 from P10 on the grid. Vice-chairman Piero Ferrari believes the Qatar GP was a “punch in the stomach” for the Scuderia, too, after it locked them into fourth place in the F1 constructors’ standings.

Ferrari are paying the price of shifting their full focus to the 2026 F1 regulations back in April and stopping developing the SF-25. And Danner thinks next term’s rule changes are now the only hope that Hamilton has to “redeem himself” from the disappointment he has endured.

He said: “[2026 is] his hope to redeem himself. He’s a fighter, he doesn’t give up. Therefore, for him, there’s only one thing to do, put it behind him, keep his head down and move on!”