Hamilton's 'useless' comments are 'very hard to listen to'

16:22, 06 Aug

Updated: 16:31, 06 Aug

bySavannah Lenz

Lewis Hamilton's move to Ferrari has not been the smoothest. The Briton has put a lot of pressure on himself and has been very vocal about his disappointing performances.

During the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend, Hamilton called himself 'useless' and said Ferrari should find another driver. This was because his teammate Charles Leclerc was on pole position, and Hamilton had not made it into Q3. Thus, he believed it was his fault and not the team's.

After the race weekend, Williams Racing Driver & F1 Academy Adviser, Jamie Chadwick, appeared on the Sky Sports podcast 'The F1 Show'. When speaking about Hamilton's move to Ferrari and the comments he made, she said, "It's definitely not the fairy tale we're all hoping for, that's for sure."

'Hamilton wants to win his eighth'

"There's a few ways to look at it. It's been a really tough few races for Lewis, and also in that race, lap seven, he'd been told to lift more, to manage overheating, and as a driver, you're already having a tough weekend, and you're told you can't even attack to try and kind of make up for it almost. He just had a tough weekend, and it's compounded issues that we've seen from earlier in the year."

Chadwick then added that Hamilton moved to Ferrari because he was hoping for a change. A chance to win another championship.

She said, "Part of the reason he's so down on himself and so frustrated, it was Fred Vasseur who said it's out of frustration rather than anything else, is because he's gone there to try and win an 8th world title. He's gone there because he wants to be winning the world title, winning races weekend, weekend out."

Hamilton during the Hungarian GP

"Even if you just have one or two bad weekends, that's frustrating when he knows what he's there to try and achieve. So it's very hard listening to be honest."

Chadwick said, "I really hope the summer break gives an opportunity for not just him but Ferrari to kind of reflect and find a way out of it because it's not nice for anyone to sort of hear that, but particularly from a driving point of view, it's really hard listening to be honest."

A few other drivers have also shared the sentiment that it is hard listening to Hamilton because of how down he is on himself. Toto Wolff took to his defence afterwards, saying that Hamilton was and always would be the Greatest of All Time (GOAT).