According to Lucas Di Grassi, Lewis Hamilton is already past his peak, so if I were Ferrari I wouldn't have hired him.
In a certain sense, Lewis Hamilton has suffered a lot in 2024, and from this point of view it is not an exaggeration to say that the Briton is experiencing the lowest point of his career. This concerns his performance in qualifying, where this year he suffered a bad defeat by George Russell. According to Lucas Di Grassi, who raced for the Renault team in F1 and then won a title in Formula E, all this clearly shows that time has passed for Hamilton, he is expensive and slow, someone else should have gotten that seat at Ferrari.
"If I were Ferrari, I would never have hired Lewis Hamilton. He is expensive, he is already slow, he is absolutely past his zenith. Instead I would have given the opportunity to someone who could really reach the peak with the Scuderia.
His no longer sufficient speed is still compensated by his enormous experience, a good strategy, excellent teamwork, the fact that he helps to develop the team and the settings, to understand their car better.
But after a year like this, in which Ferrari has shown that it can progress on its own, I don't think they need this at all. In the short term, Hamilton is good marketing, but if they really want to win the world championship, he is no longer the right man." - harshly criticized the seven-time champion Di Grassi.
