Ex-F1 driver David Coulthard has rasied concerns that Ferrari may not get a prime 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton when he joins the team next year. 

Hamilton shocked the F1 world when he announced in February he would be leaving Mercedes after 12 seasons to join rivals Ferrari, taking the seat currently occupied by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz.

Since agonisingly missing out on a record-breaking eighth world title in his controversial defeat to Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen in 2021, Hamilto♏n has won just twice amid Mercedes’ competitive struggles in F1’s new era of regulations.

And Coulthard reckons there could be similarities between Hamilton's impending switch and when 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Michael Schumacher made ☂his F1 comeback with Mercedes in 2010. 

“I suspect [the move] was slightly emotional and in a frustrated place. Some re🍎lationships, over time, become a bit ꧑stale,” Coulthard told .

“He obviously saw the opportunity a💎t Ferrari a bit like, I guess, Mercedes when they brought M🐽ichael back.

“They [Mercedes] th💫ought they were getting the Michael [Schumacher] of his Ferrari era, and then they found out they just got a good Michael.

“Ferrari may end♕ up just getting a good Lewis. A good Lewis is still pretty handy, but he’s been consistently outperformed by George [Russell] this year – maybe not in the championship points table, but in terms of qualifying and th𒈔at.

“What I lacked in my careꩵer was that qualifying speed. If I look at the some of the fastest drivers, your Mikas♔, Kimis, Michaels, and Ayrtons and whoever else fits into that, these guys just have speed.

“The minute they lose that little bit of speed… I’m not a big football fan, but I hear the analo🔯gy about a striker losing a yard – the thing that allowed them to get tꦯhere and put the ball in the back of the net was they were just that wee bit quicker.

“The minute they lose that speed… they’re st൩ill brilliant, but they’re not as. brilliant as they were.

“So Lewis may𝐆 welꦇl not quite deliver what he’s hoping for, because, first of all, he’s got to outqualify Charles.

“I think Charles, at 26/꧒27, he’s still pretty handy, and that may make it ꧑difficult for Lewis.”

Coulthard added: “It’s an interesting questionꦫ, because Lewis has got nothing to prove. He’s a seven-time World🔯 Champion.

“He could have been nine or 10, you know, because he’s been pre൩tty close on other occasions. I personally don’t think it’s about how many titles you get that defines how great a driver you are.

“I know the history books… they need that, don’t they? They need him to have eight, so he can be undisputed champion🍨 of the world.

“But, whatever he does, there’ll be someone comes along 𒈔and betters it in the future, because every generation should be better.

“Otherwis♋e, we would not have evolved as humans! So it’s not about trying to cast what he’s achieved.”