[Yo-Yo]

Because, clearly, it's the car's fault, not Lewis's.

And Hamilton is right. When he and Russell were driving identical cars, Russell was faster than Hamilton.

Now that he and Leclerc are driving identical cars, Leclerc is faster than Hamilton.

But it's the car...

[Paal Gulli]

Lots of F1 sites are running with Ralf's prediction that Hambone would retire rather than humiliate Ferrari, and with every passing day they come up with a more inflammatory headline for basically the same story. All of which comes back to a throw-away line from a guy who only ever got into F1 in the first place because he shares a father with a famous F1 driver.

Then there's other guys who are still digging for fresh dirt.

F1 Oversteer dug into the data and came up with a couple of interesting factoids.

Hambone has scored 31 points in the first five races at Ferrari.

In his worst start of the four seasons he was at the Scuderia, Carlos Sainz -- who was axed so Hambone could have a red car -- still scored 38 points in the first five races ... and that included a DNF!!!

Leclerc and Sainz raced together on 23 weekends. Leclerc qualified better at 14 of those 23 events. Averaged over those 23 races, the difference in qualifying times was just 0.03% of whichever driver's time was faster.

In 2025, Hambone has yet to qualify better than Leclerc and his average deficit after five races is 0.321% of Leclrec's time. Which they categorize as Sainz being 10x better than Hambone (at least in qualies).

If the F1 press keep dragging up these sort of details (F1 Oversteer refers to it as a "Damning comparison between Lewis Hamilton and Carlos Sainz in qualifying"), they might make Ralf's prediction come true.