Former System 1 driver and Sky Sports activities F1 analyst Martin Brundle is assured that Lewis Hamilton could have a greater yr in 2026 than he did in 2025.
The seven-time champion used the 2025 season, his first with Ferrari, to regulate to the Maranello outfit. As he struggled to familiarize yourself with the brand new group, he completed the yr with out a grand prix podium end, with the spotlight being a dash race victory in China.Â
Now, Hamilton is raring to place 2025 behind him and head into 2026 after each a private reset and a reset of the grid with the brand new wave of rules in F1.
“I hope so,” Brundle advised Sky Sports activities F1 when requested if issues had been possible to enhance for the Briton. “For Lewis, for Ferrari. As System 1 followers, we at all times need Ferrari to do effectively, do not we? And I might like to see that come proper for Lewis.
“He appears a bit happier. He shall be nice at utilizing the instruments which might be accessible to him below the brand new rules. He is obtained to beat Charles Leclerc within the different Ferrari as a result of he is proper on it as effectively. However a cheerful Lewis has at all times been, and never simply at Ferrari, a quick Lewis.
“So I believe if he comes into the season, and I’ve to say Ferrari have been fairly modern over the winter, they usually look in a greater place than we have seen them for a couple of years now. So I am assured that Lewis could have a greater yr.”
Brundle’s co-presenter Craig Slater pointed to the work that Hamilton has put in at Ferrari over the past 12 months, making ready for the brand new rules.
Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari
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“He stated that ‘I’ve put my DNA on this automotive’. Whereas final yr, he spent a number of time saying, ‘I am new to the group. I am having to regulate,'” Slater stated. “He is labored very arduous in these final 12 months. Will he get the reward for his arduous work, is the query, having developed the relationships throughout the group and so forth.
“However are you able to think about the joy globally if on the age of 41, he is a contender this yr for title quantity eight?”
Brundle added: “Lewis transcends System 1 like no different driver, in my opinion, has earlier than or does now. And also you’re proper, Craig, however he’ll have a number of younger guys, not way more than half his age to beat as effectively. So, it will not be simple for him, however I believe I am assured he is in for a greater season.”
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