Ferrari are lacking pure pace to rivals Mercedes in the opening stages of the F1 2025 season. That is the claim made by seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton, as he assessed how Ferrari compare against the Mercedes team which he left after re-writing records at every turn in order to realise a childhood dream by joining Ferrari.

Both of these things are true: In 2020, Hamilton said he was giving up his fleet of supercars to go electric because of climate change. In 2025, Hamilton declared that his dream is to design a modern Ferrari F40 with a stick shift.

After finishing seventh in the Japanese GP, Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton has admitted his ex-F1 team Mercedes are currently faster than his new team.