Villeneuve: ''Emotional' Hamilton may struggle at Ferrari'

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Villeneuve foresees challenge Hamilton at Ferrari
5 August at 11:00
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  • Nicole Mulder

Recently, Mercedes' situation is starting to look brighter and brighter. Yet Lewis Hamilton will no longer drive for Toto Wolff 's team next year. Instead, he will be in action in red for Ferrari, where the seven-time world champion could still struggle, according to Jacques Villeneuve.

Villeneuve: 'Hamilton has never had a year like Verstappen'

Villeneuve thinks Hamilton faces a big challenge next year, partly because of the great pressure that comes with the life of a Ferrari driver. "Lewis Hamilton will be an emotional rollercoaster at Ferrari. He seems to be very emotional in his driving, in the highs and lows, and it seems to affect him quite a lot," the 1997 world champion stated in conversation with Instantcasino.com.

He continued: "You can tell he was on a roll and in the zone at Silverstone – he hasn’t been in the zone like that for a while." Villeneuve also believes the seven-time world champion is lacking consistency at the moment. "Every season he’s driven, Hamilton has had ups and downs, he’s never had a season like Max Verstappen. There’s always swings in his moods, it might be self-doubt but I’m not sure."

"Most of the season, it’s looked like Hamilton was accepting defeat to George Russell, which is weird. In Silverstone, his killer instinct was bad and he made the difference in the rain. That’s the champion we know, he knows how to take hold of an occasion," Villeneuve concluded with praising the Briton.

This article was written in collaboration with Kada Sarkozi