Lewis Hamilton Set To Create Bizarre Record At Ferrari As Upsetting Season Continues

Last Updated:August 11, 2025, 10:23 IST

Lewis Hamilton faces his worst single-season race head-to-head defeat to teammate Charles Leclerc at Ferrari, with a 2-11 record so far.

Lewis Hamilton has finished above Leclerc in just two races (Picture credit: AP)

Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton is all set to create a disappointing record at Ferrari, with the star British driver on the verge of recording his worst single-season race head-to-head defeat to a teammate in his career. Currently, Charles Leclerc has put up a better performance in the Ferrari than Hamilton.

The British driver has just been able to finish ahead of Leclerc in two of the first 14 races held so far.

According to data from Daniel Valente, Leclerc is on route to hand Hamilton his worst single-season race head-to-head defeat of his career. The latter has a 2-11 race H2H record of 15.4% against Leclerc this season.

The 15.4% is a sharp decline from the 35% Hamilton recorded against George Russell in his final season at the Mercedes team.

Hamilton has just been able to best Leclerc at his home race, the British Grand Prix in Silverstone and at the Emilia Romagna GP, both races where he finished in fourth.

While team-mate Leclerc proved unable to convert Ferrari’s first pole position of the season into a win because of unexplained mechanical issues during the race at the Hungarian GP, Hamilton was battling to escape the midfield and finished where he began, at 12th, with no points.

As on Saturday, August 2, when he was dumped out of Q2 and appeared miserable, claiming he was “completely useless" and saying that the team should “bring in another driver", Hamilton seemed utterly deflated.

But Fred Vasseur was swift to defend the British driver, who has always been prone to impulsive heart-on-sleeve reactions.

Vasseur added that Hamilton’s weekend appeared worse than it was because of the tight and competitive times that led him to miss out on reaching Q3 on Saturday.

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August 11, 2025, 10:23 IST

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