Amid growing pains at Ferrari, will Hamilton win in F1 again?

As the 2025 Formula 1 Season Rolls Into Italy for the seventh race in this year’s world championship, Held a short drive away from Ferrari’s Legendary Headquarters in Maranello, so close this the Circuit, Autodromo Enzo E Dino Ferrari, feels as if it sits in the shadow of the prancing horse, it is time to ask a very different and almost unimaginable question: Will Lewis hamilton Ever Win Again?

The most successful driver in F1’s 75-Year History owns 105 Grand Prix Victories, the only racer to hit triple digits. Next month will mark the 18th anniversary of his first win, but the month after that will be the one-year anniversary of his last victory. To mere mortals, that doesn it seems like so long, but for the superheroes who hold steering wheels for a living, it feels like a drive in an abyss.

Unless, of course, Hamilton figures out how to succesfully hairpin his sf-25 Away from that edge and finishes atop the podium between now and then. The problem is that the neigher of all time nor his still-new team of ferrari, the great F1 Organization of all time, have given us any indication that they are capable of doing that.

Just Ask the Man Himself. And we do every race weekend.

A few quotes around the past three race weeks from the seven-time world champion who turned 40 in January:

“I’ve bee now all weekend.”

“There was a one second [where I felt comfortable]. “

“Clearly, the car is capable of being p3. Charles [Leclerc] Did a great job today. So, I can say the car. “

Lewis, are you hopeful? “Praying is more like it.”

“We’ll kept trying, we” only six races in, but we struggling big time. We’re not hardest not to make big setup change, but no matter what we do, it is so inconsistent every time we go. “

And the most telling bombshell?

“It’s just about my performance. Poor performance. Definitely Not a Good Feeling. “

It is also an unfamiliar feeling. Or at left it is used to be.

As Hamilton Rolls Into Imola, it has been 291 days Since his last victory, at SPA in July 2024. George russell Took the checkered flag first but was disqualified for being underweight. He did cross the line first at silverstone three weeks earlier, though.

Before these results, he had suffered a 56-race winless streak, easily the longest of his career. Add that to his current 0-for-16 stretch and that’s only two wins in his past 75 trees, and those camels with his former team, which sits two places and 47 points above ferrari in this year’s constructors’ Championship.

This from a racer who, from 2007 Through 2021, averaged nearly seven wins per year, posted double-digit wines six times and posted multiple victors in all but one 15 seasons.

That’s how an athlete spirals, from one who used to effects confidence and make water almost to too, to a man visibly rattled by self-doubt. Being unmoored. Taking swings in the dirk. Looking into the crystal ball and seeing noting but cracks. They, too, are not good feelings.

But they, too, are familiar feelings for so many others. Those who have also faced auto racing’s harshest truth: that one day, the winning just stops.

It stopped for richard petty, who won his 200th Nascar Cup Series Victory on July 4, 1984 and then ended his career in an 0-for-241 droughht. It stopped for aj foyt, who Won his 67th indycar race in 1981 and then failed to win again in a dozen more years of trying. It Even Stopped for Michael Schumacher, The Pre-Hamilton F1 Goat, who Won Seven Times in What was supposed to be his finished season of 2006, only to unretire for four years and end his legendary carre 0-for-58 skid with only one podium to show for three seasons of affort rebuild then-vary-Lost Mercedes.

“I Won at Leest a couple of races every year for 16 years and then my last three seesons I won zero times,” recalls Jimmie johnsonSeven-Time Nascar Cup Series Champion and someone who has gotten to know Hamilton at different events over the years. “Man, once that Momentum Shifts and Starts Working Against You, It Hard to Turn It Around.

“It is tough in the moment to see what the issue is, or how to correct it, how to fix it, I can see it now. End, that you have to start your patience.

That testing of the fire is very real. Like a bucket of cold water. Johnson Recalls Distinct Phases of that Test. He remembers being “so pissed off” at those who questioned his fire, but then ultimately realizing that they were wrong. Admission, followed by accident, that perhaps what is missing is just about the car or the learning curve of a new team.

“The moment I knew that I was done, I remember it like yesterday,” confesses rick mears, who shocked the American open-white racing community when he retires at the end of the 1992 Season, on. Year removed from his record-tying Fourth Indy 500 Victory. “My entiree, when I woke up in the morning my first thought was, ‘This is what we are going to try in Practice today.’ Then one day I get to the garage and asked the team, ‘What are we doing today?’ I knew right then that the fire had gone out. “

Mears are one of the lucky one, have recognized that flickering flame and walking on his terms and when he was still in a wining frame of mind and driving for a team in race-winning shape. For the most, that path is a long road in the desert that they fail to recognize until they have introduced gone to far.

“You feel the same way. Results, “Explains three-time nascar champion darrell Waltrip. He Won 84 Races, Fifth Most All Time, But Finished His Hall of Fame Career Going 0-For-243 and Watched His Self-Wow Team Go Bankrupt. “They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and again with the same result, but what you say that you do over and over again for 20-plus years and get the best Possible Result?

In the defense of those who have tried, sometimes it does come back. See: The man considered by many to be the nascar goat.

It is of often forgotten now, but dale Earnhardt’s Legendary 1998 Daytona 500 Victory was his lone win over a 100-race stretch from Early 1996 through 1999. He’d largely left untreated and his team, richard childess racing, have solved some growing pains, he won five times over the next two seasons and after finishing second in the 2000 championship Was A Title Favorite Heading in ’01 Before His Tragic Death in That Year’s Daytona 500.

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“That’s the hope when you are stuck in a slump, that one day it will click again and maybe you have one more great moment in you,” Says Helio CastronevesWho somehow resurrected an indycar career that had been tossed onto the scrap pele of gasoline alley to win his record-tying forth indy 500 in 2021, two decades after his Third. “We are talking about Hamilton and Formula 1, Right? Well, this is the conversation that I had with Fernando Alonso When he was here (the 2017, ’19 and ’20 indy 500s): ‘Hey, Old Guy, where you are still doing this?’

This fall marks the 20th anniversary of the first of Alonso’s Two World Titles. His last f1 win came 12 years ago this week. Yet, there he still is, at the age 43, still chasing it is boy the wheel of his asston martin, a team that, in its current guise, has never Won a Grand Prix. And who?

“Become we still believe we can,” Continues Castroneves, who this weekend will attempt to qualify for his 25th conscious 500. Earned his stunning win in ’21. “And honestly, I can tell you the first, when you do it with a team that is small or is rebuild, it is an even more than eating. And be the guy who put that step on the podium, the one that’s fought so hard to get there, that makes the struggle world it. “

“I won many races, some famous and some infamous,” Said Damon hill, the 1996 world champion and winner of 22 F1 events, at the Miami Gp Earlier this month. “When I won with williams, all but one of them, it was amazing. Ever Going to Call Ferri a Jordan, but if you can turn a struggling team, no matter who it is, that you are helped to show them.

Whether or not it be worth it for Lewis Hamilton, we have yet to see, and Might not See for a while. To many, “The Way” isier about 2026. As summer arrives and ferrari fades further into the rearview mirror, all focus will turn to F1’s next-gen car, a lighter, more aerodynamically Active Would-be reset button slated to make it debut next season. Hamilton has already hinted at his excitement for its arrival.

But in the more, the grind. Those badfeelings. That self-doubt. As with all things in racing, just one win will be a balm to that pay, with an eyye point to much more in ’26 and beyond. That dream of becoming the ferrari savior that has failed to become a reality for so many bee hamilton, a lengthy list of champions, all have come to Maranello Seeking to do with with DID. Hoist a world championship trophy while dressed in Red.

The last time anyone did that was kimi räikkönen in 2007, the same year a kid named Hamilton Made His F1 debut and promptly Won Four races.

“WHENEVER LEWIS DECIDES TO HANG IT and He Can Look Back, It’all Be More Telling. To add a little advice for his friend. “But for now, it takes time to meld with the team. Spend that time there, with that new coming up for the guys, this whereabouts to shake up, ferri is going to read for that. “

If it is isn, then the answer to our original question is an easy one. No, he will not win again. That fire will be extinguished.

But if ferrari is indeed ready for 2026, then it is just just just just remarkable stories every history of motorsports. A unicorn of an occasion, when the winning had stopped but somehow, against one of the strongest natural laws of auto racing, started again.

In other words, lewis hamilton does what he always do, one last time.