Lewis Hamilton would have gone into his first season at Ferrari expecting his results to improve as the campaign progressed.
The Bahrain Grand Prix was his best Grand Prix result of 2025 as he came home in P5.
That’s not to take away from Lewis Hamilton’s victory in the Sprint Race in China, but that victory doesn’t count towards his official tally of 105 wins.
Hamilton sits seventh in the drivers’ standings as a result of his fifth-place finish, but is now more than 50 points behind championship leader Lando Norris.
Ferrari had a decent race with Charles Leclerc just unable to cling onto his first podium finish of the season, but ultimately, it’s been a disappointing start to the season for the Scuderia.
Hamilton’s hopes of winning the championship appear to be all but over with 20 race weekends still to play unless Ferrari deliver further updates to add to the new parts that arrived in Bahrain.
Martin Brundle was analysing how Hamilton has started the season and a worrying theory he’s come across about why he hasn’t hit the ground running.
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Martin Brundle agrees with ‘troubled’ Lewis Hamilton theory at Ferrari
Brundle was discussing Hamilton’s mixed start to the season on Sky Sports F1 (13/4 3:03 pm) and explained: “There was a ray of sunshine wasn’t there with the Chinese Sprint, of course, but that’s a different kind of race with only a third of the amount of fuel onboard, and obviously the car got disqualified the next day for being a bit too low.
“So, somebody explained to me today that it’s harder to relearn and move teams than it is to be a rookie and just learn in the first place.
“I’m kind of buying into that a little bit, but it’s a bit surprising. I thought Lewis would pick it up, and clearly the car’s not working as he wants to find out how to work with the engineers better and how to make the team work.
“As I explained it in pre-season, as finding out where all the green buttons are to find the speed that Leclerc already knows.
“At the moment, I would say it’s troubled times.”
David Coulthard was troubled by Hamilton’s qualifying performance when he had to settle for a spot on the fifth row.
While he managed to make up four positions, he’s still some way off his teammate at this stage of the season.
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Martin Brundle shares what he thinks Lewis Hamilton has ‘lost’ since his F1 peak
At 40 years old, Hamilton is the second-oldest driver on the grid behind Fernando Alonso.
Both drivers have changed immensely since their debuts, and Brundle wondered what Hamilton might have ‘lost’ in recent years.
He explained: “It’s sad in those interviews that we got quite used to last year didn’t we that’s just replaying out at Ferrari.
“My experience is that different things go. I noticed my eyes going at Le Mans for example at night.
“I think Sebastian Vettel lost a bit of peripheral vision, for example if I think of the end of his career.
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“So, I wouldn’t say there’s one size fits all on that, but I just still feel that age is not Lewis’ problem.
“I really don’t think that he’s lost any vision, or lost any kind of driving ability as such.
“He just seems to have lost his way a little bit in getting a car how he likes it, and he’s got a host of young drivers around him who have got way over 100 races’ experience, and they’re still in their mid-20s.”
Hamilton has plenty of time to get up to speed as 2026 will inevitably become Ferrari’s bigger focus at some point during the campaign.
However, if he has another poor start next year, then he may start to question his Formula 1 future.
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