Ferrari are letting Lewis Hamilton down ...Middle East

Here comes Monza. What should be a moment of euphoria for Lewis Hamilton, his debut at the Italian Grand Prix in a Ferrari, is grinding towards an uncomfortable question: what’s the point of it all? 

Each race, it seems, brings a negative dimension to process, dimming by increments the glow around the seven-time world champion.

Though his DNF at Zandvoort did not provoke anything like the desperate “I’m useless” reaction that met his qualifying performance in Hungary, Hamilton was once again explaining away a race weekend that passed him by.

Until his rear snapped out of shape through the Hugenholtz bend on a damp track, Hamilton was actually in decent shape.

He had been quicker than his team-mate Charles Leclerc in practice and qualifying until the last runs, and then the difference was just five-hundredths of a second during the latter.

The subsequent DNF of Leclerc, punted out by the errant Kimi Antonelli while fourth, dumped further misery on Ferrari’s season.

The moment that cost Lewis Hamilton five grid places at the Italian Grand Prix pic.twitter.com/lIAXQ5KdbS

Frustration has been the dominant feature for a Maranello squad that has struggled to piece together any understanding of the radical revisions they made in the winter.

In that regard, there was little consequence attached to the result, since McLaren are out of sight in the constructors’ championship, leaving Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris to fight out the drivers’ championship between them.

The problem for Hamilton is the creeping diminution of prestige he is suffering as he hacks around in Leclerc’s wake looking for clues to ignite this final chapter of his career.

Clearly everything rests on 2026 and the sweeping regulatory changes to power unit and chassis.

Hamilton will be glad to see the back of the ground-force era, an aerodynamic concept that brought ruin to the end of his Mercedes career and hampered his start at Ferrari.

With the exit of Venturi tunnels in favour of flat floors, the behaviour of the cars leans more towards the prior hybrid epoch in which Hamilton excelled.

Ironically, the paddock telegraph speaks of Mercedes, the team he chose to leave, gaining a march on the field with the new engine design, which would reverse the trajectory that Hamilton enjoyed when he ditched McLaren for the German manufacturer more than a decade ago.

There is, however, enough uncertainty to allow Ferrari and Hamilton at least to dream, a quality that is not available to him as he heads to Monza in a car that he has ultimately failed to master.

The drip, drip of run-of-the-mill weekends has exposed Hamilton to a side of the sport he has never really known.

A world beater in junior categories, a game changer in Formula One, the ordinary had never been part of Hamilton’s racing experience, yet this has been his lot post-2020 with the fateful denouement in Abu Dhabi that cost him that unprecedented eighth world title.

Were he to achieve it at Ferrari, even this era’s defining racer, Max Verstappen, would have to accept second billing at the GOAT table.

But we are a long way off that as Hamilton prepares to race in front of the tifosi for the first time as a Ferrari driver a couple of hours up the road from the team’s Maranello home.  

Ferrari have won not a sausage since 2007, and even then, were it not for the implosion at a McLaren team engulfed in the Ferrari-gate scandal and the bitter internecine rivalry between Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, it is unlikely that Kimi Raikkonen would have got home.

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The coming together of Ferrari and Hamilton, the sport’s iconic marque and for many its greatest driver, is loaded with fairytale vibes, but, as the Dutch Grand Prix demonstrated, elite sport is unforgiving territory.

It is a truism that even the best in Formula One are machinery-dependent. In a quick car, champions find a way to separate themselves, just as Hamilton has done seven times in his career.

Watching him labour is as much a challenge for his fans as it is for him, both parties having to re-evaluate late-stage Hamilton by the race.

And the Italian Grand Prix promises to be another weekend in the chorus line, not helped by a five-place grid penalty for a transgression under yellow flags en route to the start line in Zandvoort.

Relentless mediocrity is so not what this regal partnership is supposed to be about, especially at the Parco Reale in Monza.

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