“It’s a nightmare, I’ve been living it for a while”, was Lewis Hamilton’s frank summary of the 2025 Formula 1 season, for it was the year he arguably performed at his worst. The seven-time world champion finished sixth in the standings, 86 points behind Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc and, for the first time since joining F1 in 2007, he failed to score a Sunday podium across a whole campaign.
That certainly wasn’t how the 40-year-old envisaged the season going, his first in Scuderia colours, particularly because it actually started off relatively well. Once everybody had got over the excitement of his blockbuster move from Mercedes and he got down to business, Hamilton was quick out of the blocks - scoring a sprint win from pole at round two in Shanghai.
