Steiner pulls no punches: scolds Hamilton over 'I'm useless' comments

17:27, 06 Aug

Updated: 17:29, 06 Aug

bySavannah Lenz

Guenther Steiner appreaed on the Red Flags Podcast. It was there that he proclaimed Lewis Hamilton was using the 'i'm useless' comments as a tactic.

Steiner sees Hamilton as someone who lost out significantly during the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend. While he recognises that Britain is struggling, he also makes it a point to mention how he has the wrong attitude.

Steiner questions Hamilton's comments

He said, "How can you come out as being seven-time world champion saying, I'm useless? That was, it's not his performance. I do not care about that. I'm not going into his performance. He's struggling. At some stage in our life, we all struggle a little bit."

"I still struggle, so I always struggle, but coming out and saying, oh, I'm useless. That's the wrong attitude. And that is for me. I don't like attitude of giving up, you know, or it's an attitude that people should feel sorry for you."

Hamilton was very downbeat during the Hungarian Grand Prix. He took it hard that Charles Leclerc was on pole, while he was down in 12th position.

Steiner added, "For me, it's like if I'm seven times world champion, I've got enough confidence that I know that I'm not useless. I just need to work harder and going back to get my mojo back. It's one of these things."

Lewis Hamilton's SF-25 at the Hungarian GP

It was only a few weeks ago that Hamilton was saying he refuses to be like Sebastian Vettel or Fernando Alonso and not become a champion with Ferrari.

Steiner said, "A few weeks ago, [Hamilton was] sitting down the engineers telling them what to do and now you're coming back and saying, I'm useless. It's just focus on what you're good at, which is driving a race car, because he's good. He's a seven-time world champion."

When one of the cohosts brought up how he thought Hamilton was trying to deflect from his performances, Steiner added, "That's the wrong attitude. Just feeling sorry for yourself."

He then agreed that it was a tactic to get people to defend Hamilton against his bad performances.