“What’s Wrong with Him?” Fernando Alonso Dumbfounded over Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari Struggles

Fernando Alonso is confused over what's going on with Lewis Hamilton as he fails to amass any notable results with Ferrari in his debut.

“What’s Wrong with Him?” Fernando Alonso Dumbfounded over Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari Struggles

Fernando Alonso (via IMAGO), Lewis Hamilton (via Ferrari)

Lewis Hamilton is facing an extremely difficult time during his Ferrari debut this year. The Briton has failed to contend for satisfactory results, especially due to the team’s blunders in strategy and race calls. Hamilton’s best result is only a sprint victory in China, with no podiums or Grand Prix wins to boast about. Now, as the 40-year-old hopes to get out of the performance slump, Fernando Alonso has given his verdict on the former’s trying times recently.

Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton were teammates back in the latter’s rookie days at McLaren. As such, Alonso is aware of the 40-year-old’s strengths and weaknesses. Hamilton, being a seven-time champion, means that he doesn’t have many of those to begin with. However, Ferrari’s problematic strategies, coupled with a mediocre pace from its challengers, have caused the Briton to remain on the back foot in performing well this year.

Speaking of Lewis Hamilton’s recent struggles, Fernando Alonso couldn’t help but remain confused on what was the actual reason. Hamilton was supposed to fight for the top spot in the standings with Ferrari, but he now struggles to fight for even a single race win. The ex-Ferrari driver, now at Aston Martin, questioned the reasons behind the immediate downfall of the 40-year-old.

Alonso reckoned that he had no idea of what was wrong with Hamilton in his debut season at Ferrari. The Asturian pointed out that the 40-year-old is a great driver with barely any weaknesses. As such, the F1 veteran is confident that the Briton would quickly regain his confidence and exploit all the strength that he has in him in terms of performance. This means that it isn’t long before the 105-time winner once again returns to the podium and makes winning a habit with Ferrari.

What’s wrong with him? I have no idea. Lewis is a great driver, he’s capable of exploiting all his strengths.

Fernando Alonso said, as reported by planetf1

Fernando Alonso confident Lewis Hamilton will ‘turn things around’

Lewis Hamilton hasn’t hesitated to accept his and Ferrari’s shortcomings in multiple aspects this year. The 40-year-old has also had a verbal spat with his race engineer during live races due to the issues in strategic calls. Now, with the 2025 season just 10 races in, Fernando Alonso guesses that it wouldn’t take long for the Briton to regain his form in the 24 total races this year.

Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc (via Ferrari)
Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc (via Ferrari)

Fernando Alonso insisted that Hamilton’s capabilities would be rightly evaluated after the 24 races have culminated this year. Alonso pointed out that while the 40-year-old is struggling now, it wouldn’t take long before he turns the situation around. The Asturian explained that the seven-time champion would turn things around very quickly, as it wouldn’t be much of a surprise then because of his calibre and racing mettle.

After 24 races, we’ll do the math: he’s struggling now, but he can turn things around very quickly.

Fernando Alonso noted

Ferrari needs to work extremely hard on their pace and ensure that Lewis Hamilton doesn’t face any more troubles than required. The team needs immediate improvement in pace to retain Hamilton’s interest in them beyond his contract expiration. Now, time will tell if the Italian constructors return to their lost glory with the 40-year-old or if it turns into yet another unrealized dream for them. Charles Leclerc has seemed to keep the struggles at bay and keep up with impressive performances as compared to the seven-time champion.

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