{"id":293227,"date":"2023-11-05T23:25:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=293227"},"modified":"2023-11-05T23:25:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T23:25:10","slug":"this-was-the-most-embarrassing-day-of-lewis-hamiltons-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/racing\/f1\/this-was-the-most-embarrassing-day-of-lewis-hamiltons-career\/","title":{"rendered":"This was the most embarrassing day of Lewis Hamilton&apos;s career"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>JONATHAN McEVOY: This was the most embarrassing day of Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s CAREER&#8230; he&#8217;d have more chance of winning an eighth world championship with Blackpool Tower Circus than with Mercedes<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hamilton finished eighth in the Brazilian Grand Prix, sliding down the grid at will<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He admitted that Red Bull are &#8216;going to be very clear for the next couple of years&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Brit is chasing a record eighth world championship but is not even close\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is more chance of Lewis Hamilton winning an eighth world championship with Blackpool Tower Circus than with Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>Not only my view, but a reflection of the mood of the man himself after a Brazilian Grand Prix as abject as any day during the tarnished Silver Arrows\u2019 two years of serial non-achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton spelt out what any idiot can see, namely that there is no prospect of his team ending their misery this year or next, or perhaps the one after. What that means for his title dream is obvious. He is 38 and has two seasons to run on his new contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Red Bull are so far away, they\u2019re probably going to be very clear for the next couple of years,\u2019 said Hamilton after Red Bull\u2019s unstoppable Max Verstappen clinically led home McLaren\u2019s Lando Norris and Aston Martin\u2019s Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>This is it for Mercedes for the foreseeable future, and one wonders whether Toto Wolff is a team principal capable of turning the tide. He lives in Monaco when the factory is in Brackley, Northamptonshire \u2014 an emblem of his detachment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/05\/22\/77435093-0-image-m-34_1699221850923.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton seems further away than ever after an embarrassing race at the Brazilian GP<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/05\/21\/77435073-0-image-a-3_1699221048729.jpg\" height=\"461\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He said Max Verstappen&#8217;s Red Bull will be dominant in the sport for &#8216;the next couple of years&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/05\/21\/77435135-0-image-a-4_1699221094757.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Questions are being asked of whether Toto Wolff is a team principal capable of turning the tide<\/p>\n<p>Formula One history suggests the boss must be first in and last out, day in and day out.<\/p>\n<p>Wolff, 51, is hardly heading back to the Riviera content this time. Like a stuck record he promised fundamental changes to the car concept over the winter. \u2018An inexcusable performance,\u2019 he admitted. \u2018The car almost drove like it was on three wheels and not on four. My worst weekend in 13 years.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The damning evidence started mounting in Saturday\u2019s sprint over just 24 laps that saw George Russell finish 26 seconds back and Lewis Hamilton 35. This is light years in a sport of thousandths. And the grand prix itself over 71 laps was even worse for being a longer-endured agony.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton finished eighth, 1min 3sec back. Russell retired with rising oil temperature while running 11th \u2014 engine failure, in plain English.<\/p>\n<p>Even the Alpine of Pierre Gasly beat them. And Hamilton would likely have been a place further adrift if only Charles Leclerc had not slid off with hydraulic failure on the formation lap. (Ferrari are also a basket case, and Leclerc bemoaned his \u2018f***ing bad luck\u2019 and said he should visit Lourdes.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/05\/21\/77435087-0-image-a-5_1699221138694.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Hamilton (right) finished over a minute back from Verstappen on Sunday, while team-mate George Russell (left) retired with engine failure<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/05\/21\/77435043-0-image-a-6_1699221142152.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The two spent much of the race going head-to-head, at times wondering what the plan was<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/05\/21\/77435165-0-image-a-7_1699221186453.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Hamilton would have finished further back had Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc (pictured above) not crashed on the formation lap<\/p>\n<p>But the Mercedes malaise under Wolff is deep in technical and leadership terms. This weekend\u2019s setback comes after a much-vaunted new floor was introduced in Austin a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n<p>That carried Hamilton to a seemingly impressive close second place before the underneath of his machine was revealed to be illegal.<\/p>\n<p>It has never worked so well since conforming to the rules. (He was 14sec shy last week despite finishing runner-up). And on Sunday night Hamilton suggested the floor is the problem. It clearly is. This generation of cars are all about mastering the vortices below. Mercedes haven\u2019t cracked it, and appear no nearer to doing so.<\/p>\n<p>The two Mercedes drivers were like rats in sacks as the race unfolded. Russell felt he was being held up by Hamilton. \u2018Are we working together or just doing our own race?\u2019 he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Then: \u2018Do you want me to race or concede position?\u2019 And after being passed by Ferrari\u2019s Carlos Sainz, he added sarcastically: \u2018I haven\u2019t been on the radio because I thought it was quite obvious about the pace. Just sat there, behind the tyres.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/05\/21\/77435189-0-image-a-8_1699221265514.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Russell expressed his frustrations with his car and the race a number of times on the team radio throughout<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/05\/21\/77435195-0-image-a-9_1699221268109.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mercedes&#8217; direction, after seemingly having found improvements but for an illegal floor, is unclear to see<\/p>\n<p>That was code for being trapped behind Hamilton, who was overtaken by Red Bull\u2019s Sergio Perez, Aston Martin\u2019s Lance Stroll and Gasly on an afternoon as embarrassing as any in his long career.<\/p>\n<p>A sense of disarray was all around. \u2018We should have gone to the hard tyres, man,\u2019 complained Hamilton. And when tracking AlphaTauri\u2019s Yuki Tsunoda, who had yet to stop again, he said: \u2018I\u2019m in his DRS and I\u2019m still not catching him.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This on the Interlagos track where he was feted all weekend. Hamilton is an honorary citizen of Brazil and waved the national flag while driven around the track in the pre-race rituals. He was cheered to the rafters every time his face appeared on the big screens.<\/p>\n<p>But the post-race mood at Mercedes was sepulchral. A sombre debrief was underway. Can anyone, possibly, find a route map?<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/formulaone\/article-12713501\/JONATHAN-McEVOY-embarrassing-day-Lewis-Hamilton-CAREER.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JONATHAN McEVOY: This was the most embarrassing day of Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s CAREER&#8230; he&#8217;d have more chance of winning an eighth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This was the most embarrassing day of Lewis Hamilton&amp;apos;s career - Sports Love Me<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/racing\/f1\/this-was-the-most-embarrassing-day-of-lewis-hamiltons-career\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This was the most embarrassing day of Lewis Hamilton&amp;apos;s career - Sports Love Me\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"JONATHAN McEVOY: This was the most embarrassing day of Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s CAREER&#8230; 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