Much hype accompanied Lewis Hamilton’s move to Ferrari this season, but any hopes that Maranello could carry forward its strong late-2024 form into the new season were quickly scuppered.
That meant a fourth successive season of angst and self-doubt as Hamilton’s year dissolved after the high point of the sprint win at Shanghai – Ferrari’s only victory of the season.
Elsewhere he was outpaced by team-mate Charles Leclerc in qualifying, by fractions of a second that were small but costly as performance converged across the grid in the final year of F1’s second ground-effect era.
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