After 18 races, Lewis Hamilton has not yet found the podium with the Ferrari (Sprint Race (excluding the Maranello team) is struggling even more in the second half of the season than in the first, and this isn't helping the Englishman. The seven-time world champion is now close to a negative record.
Hamilton-Ferrari: An uphill season
The arrival of Lewis Hamilton in Maranello brought great enthusiasm among the fans of the Reds. The most successful driver of all time in the most successful team of all time could not help but drive the Prancing Horse fans crazy. But the first season of Hamilton in Ferrari It's proving more complicated than expected. After 18 Grands Prix, the seven-time world champion is struggling to find a connection with the team, partly due to a car that isn't performing very well. Currently Lewis he is only 6th in the world championship and is losing the comparison with his teammate Charles Leclerc, which is 48 points higher in the rankings. But there is an even more discouraging fact regarding the relationship between Lewis Hamilton , Ferrari, with the British approaching a negative record.
It hasn't happened in 11 years: Hamilton close to a negative record
The first thing you notice about the first 18 appearances of Hamilton in Ferrari, is the number of podiums collected by the Englishman, that is 0. The British won a Sprint in China, but he has never managed to finish on the podium in any Sunday race. The lack of feeling of the 44 with the SF25, makes one think that the first adventure of Hamilton in Ferrari will end without podiums and this would lead Lewis towards a negative record. If this were to happen, history would repeat itself after 11 years. In fact, the last driver to have finished a full season in Ferrari without ever getting on the podium, he was Kimi Raikkonen since 2014. Even the Finn, at the time, had to deal with a car that was not performing well. With 6 events left until the end of the season, will he be able to Hamilton to conquer his first podium in Ferrari and avoid this negative record?
