Lewis Hamilton’s first Components 1 grand prix victory with Ferrari on the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix has drawn comparisons with fellow seven-time champion Michael Schumacher.
F1 journalist and host of the press conferences Tom Clarkson famous a “beautiful symmetry” between the Briton’s triumph and Schumacher’s maiden win for the Maranello outfit.
Talking on the F1 Nation podcast, Clarkson mirrored on Hamilton’s emotional return to the highest step of the rostrum and drew a parallel to Ferrari’s most profitable period.
“There is a beautiful symmetry as a result of it was 30 years in the past right here on the Circuit de Catalunya, because it was referred to as then, that Michael Schumacher gained his first race for Ferrari.”
Hamilton joined Ferrari in 2025 after a 12-year stint at Mercedes, throughout which he gained six of his seven championship titles. The Briton revealed on the time that his purpose of driving for the Scuderia stemmed from watching Schumacher at Ferrari.
“I feel for each driver, I feel rising up, watching the historical past, watching Michael Schumacher in his prime, I feel most likely all of us sit in our storage and see the display pop up, and also you see the driving force within the crimson cockpit, and also you surprise what it may be prefer to be surrounded by the crimson,” Hamilton informed the media after the announcement of his transfer in 2024.
“You go to the Italian Grand Prix, and also you see the ocean of crimson of Ferrari followers, and you may solely stand in awe of that. It is a workforce that is not had big success actually since, principally clearly from Michael’s days, however clearly since 2007, and I noticed it as an enormous problem.
Michael Schumacher, Ferrari, Mika Hakkinen, McLaren
Picture by: Pascal Rondeau – ALLSPORT – Getty Pictures
“Indubitably, at the same time as a child, I used to play on Grand Prix 2 [a computer game] as Michael in that automobile. So it undoubtedly is a dream, and I am actually, actually enthusiastic about it.”
Brazilian journalist Julianne Cerasoli, who joined Clarkson on the current episode of the F1 Nation podcast, claimed that Hamilton solely had one criticism about his new outfit. “He solely had one criticism, and that was when he made a comparability with Michael,” Cerasoli mentioned.
“Michael’s cockpit was crimson, and his is white. In his desires, he could be driving and seeing crimson throughout him, and he sees white from the place he stands. That’s his solely criticism.”
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