Lewis Hamilton warned of Ferrari scenario which would mean ‘it’s over’

Failing to find the form that carried him to seven titles before F1’s ground-effect era, Guenther Steiner says if Lewis Hamilton doesn’t get it right next year, “it’s over.”

A seven-time World Champion with 103 grand prix wins and 104 pole positions, Hamilton went into the 2022 season determined to regain the Drivers’ title that he’d lost to Max Verstappen a year prior.

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But alas, the wheels came off.

While Red Bull nailed the ground-effect aerodynamic regulations, led by design guru Adrian Newey who is said to “see air,” Mercedes floundered.

Hamilton recorded just two additional grand prix wins and one pole position in his three years in the ground-effect era with Mercedes, with the finger often pointed at the Brackley team’s