Ex-F1 driver Karun Chandhok believes 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton will have to “work on” his qualifying pace𝓡 ahead of his switch to Ferrari next year - but downplayed any concerns the team might have.

Hamilton ha꧒s consistently struggled for one-lap pace during his final season with Mercedes.

The seven-time world ch🎀ampion was comprehensively beaten by teammate George Russell across the 2024 F1 season in qualifying🀅.

While Hamilton still remains one of the very best in race trim, his lowly qualifying positions o🔴ften has made life difficult for๊ him.

In 2025, Hamilton will go up against arguably the best qualifier on the grid in 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc.

Speaking to , Chandhok assessed Hamilton’s qualif🎐ying difficul🦄ties ahead of his seismic move to Ferrari in 2025.

“He’s clearཧly struggling for confidence over the one lap,” Chandhok said. “His score with George, including Sprint sessions is 20-6 on the qualifying scores [After Brazil].

“For a guy with over 100 pole positions, it’s a real s𝔍urprise. But you listen to Lewis speak afterwards and he says things such as ‘I’m just not good at qualifying’ and ‘I just can’t qualify’, it’s really weird.

“I think he is low 💜on confide🎃nce and for whatever reason, I genuinely think he doesn’t know where the qualifying performances have gone.”

Chandhok dismissed suggestions that Ferrari will be worriedꦚ by his lack of form in qualifying, noting his world championship-winning experience.

“But from Ferrari’s perspective ultimately, I don’t think they have hired Lewis for speedꦬ.” he added. ไ;

“They have Charles Leclerc for speed. They hired Lewis because he knows how to win a World Cham𓆏pionship. He will bring them experience and the knowle🍒dge of how to put a season campaign together.

“In terms of speed, I still believe Charles Leclerc is the best qualifier on the gri💝d. In terms of out and out one lap pace, he is the fastest driver in F1 today.

“They’ve got speed but what they haven’t had is a driver who has won a World Championship, and I think that is what they have hir🐟ed him for.”

Improvements needed

With F1’s rules for 2025 remaining stable ahead of the big regulation changes in 2026, the top four teams are expected to be evenly m🍒atched at the front.

As a result, the onus will be put on the drivers to deliver, and Ham🍌ilton won’t be able to afford underperforming in Saturdays.

“For Lewis, it is somet🔯hing he will have to work on though because in 2025, it’s going to be super close and if he is two or three tenths away from Charles, you could end up P6 or P7 on the grid and all of a sudden, your race is completely different,” Chandho꧋k explained.

“I’m sure it’s weighing on his mind but I don’t think Lewis needs people ♛to tell him where he needs to improve, he knows within himself where he needs to improve and 🍸you can see the body language.”