Nascar?
NASCAR????
Whenever I’m stricken with the urge to watch someone drive in left-hand circles for three hours, I climb on my garden tractor and mow the lawn until the mood passes.
“...Hamilton has been outshone by Leclerc since the high of his first Sprint win as a Ferrari driver. The Monegasque outqualified him by four places and held onto his position during the race.
“The result is that Hamilton remains below Williams driver Alex Albon in the championship ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix. While his disqualification in China has contributed, he’s only averaging five points per weekend so far.
“Ferrari and Hamilton looked like the class of the field in the Sprint sessions in Shanghai, but otherwise, they’ve often seemed to be the fourth-fastest team. How can the performance swing so significantly?
Ferrari’s 2025 F1 car has a small working window – just like last year’s Mercedes
“According to Bild, ‘the Ferrari is not a bad car’, but ‘the working window is too small’. That means the car is only a contender within narrow parameters – be it set-up, temperature or track conditions.
“Hamilton ‘doesn’t like that at all’, having been plagued by a similar issue at Mercedes in 2024. Speaking to Autosport last summer, he described the W15 as ‘peaky’....”
https://www.f1oversteer.com/news/ferrari-have-now-discovered-the-same-car-problem-that-plagued-lewis-hamilton-at-mercedes-in-2024/
https://www.bild.de/sport/mehr-sport/ferrari-lewis-hamilton-ergeht-es-wie-michael-schumacher-67f3a11134eeb05559beb06f
Not only was his less-experienced teammate faster than him last year (and still is this year), his new less-experienced teammate is also faster than him. So how is that the car’s fault?
What an absolute putz he will look if Leclerc and Russell both finish higher than he in the 2025 WDC.
But hey, them sneakers are selling like hotcakes.