Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher may share a record seven Formula 1 titles, but former Ferrari engineer Aldo Costa has said the pair are 'worlds apart' in their work ethic, telling an Italian podcast that Schumacher was a relentless 'workaholic' while Hamilton prefers to focus on the fight on track rather than endless laps behind the wheel.
The comparison between Hamilton and Schumacher has hovered over F1 for more than a decade, intensifying as Hamilton matched and then equalled Schumacher's championships and race wins. Now that Hamilton has made the high‑profile switch to Ferrari for 2025, the parallels and the differences are being re-examined inside the very team that Schumacher helped turn into a serial title-winning machine.
