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Lewis Hamilton’s struggles defined by 2024 ‘development’: ‘It’s an odd one’
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Lewis Hamilton’s struggles defined by 2024 ‘development’: ‘It’s an odd one’

Motorsports January 7, 2025
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Former driver believes he has recognized the reason for ’s current struggles, citing the ‘explicit’ nature of floor impact automobiles.

Magnussen, who misplaced his seat at Haas on the finish of the 2024 season and can now return to the sportscar scene in 2025 as a works driver, has detected similarities within the information linking himself, Hamilton and who was additionally dropped from the F1 roster following the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix.

Hamilton is the one one of many trio with a spot on the grid because the 2025 season approaches with the seven-time World Champion heading to Ferrari bidding to silence his critics following a troublesome last season with Mercedes.

The brand new F1 automobiles, which got here into impact in 2022, exploit floor impact aerodynamics and their introduction has coincided with Hamilton and the Silver Arrows struggling to launch a title problem since then.

Generally known as an aggressive driver, good on the breaks, Magnussen’s driving fashion is lower from the identical material as Hamilton and Ricciardo and the 32-year-old Dane believes there’s a correlation between the trio’s points in floor impact F1 automobiles.

“It’s onerous, as a result of I can’t go deep into that information and analyse them as such, however I can see tendencies, , we do have some type of GPS information,” mentioned Magnussen.

“And I’ve been curious to, and had a glance and see, if I can discover some similarities. And it does appear to be the drivers which have this explicit means of driving, as we do, then we appear to wrestle a bit greater than others.

“I feel it’s clear that Lewis is struggling. He’s been nice in all of the totally different automobiles he’s ever pushed. Additionally earlier than Components 1, all the pieces, he was nice. These automobiles are very explicit.

“And I feel additionally due to the tyres. On high of the automobiles being aerodynamically and mechanically fairly explicit, the tyres are also an odd one.”

Delving deeper into the way with which he believes the bottom impact F1 automobiles must be pushed, Magnussen pinpointed one large detrimental when on the wheel.

“You weren’t actually in a position to mix as a lot as with all different automotive. This automotive could be very explicit in that it doesn’t actually like braking and turning on the similar time,” he added.

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