Former F1 driver and Sky Sports activities pundit Martin Brundle believes Lewis Hamilton can win races with Ferrari this season.
Seven-time world champion Hamilton had a disappointing debut season with Ferrari in 2025 after making a blockbuster transfer from Mercedes on the finish of 2024.
Hamilton struggled to regulate to life at Ferrari and had the worst season of his F1 profession, failing to attain his first Grand Prix podium and ending sixth within the drivers’ standings. In the meantime, Ferrari dropped from second to fourth within the constructors’ championship.
The 41-year-old Briton scored a long-awaited first podium for Ferrari on the Chinese language Grand Prix, making a robust begin to 2026 and the brand new regulatory period. Hamilton has additionally moved a lot nearer to teammate Charles Leclerc, who comfortably dominated final 12 months with the Scuderia.
Brundle expects Ferrari’s important improve package deal, which might be launched at this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix, will push the group, which has to this point lagged far behind Mercedes, into the race for victory.
“Lewis is clearly having fun with these automobiles extra,” Brundle advised Sky Sports activities F1. “Ferrari might be extra aggressive and I believe it will likely be an enormous step for Miami.
“Lewis clearly prefers this kind of automotive to the season he spent in ground-effect automobiles, the place he crashed into the bottom and was very merciless. It did not appear to swimsuit his type.
“However should you take a look at his temper and the way in which he is doing, he appears a lot happier as a result of Ferrari is extra aggressive.
“To win the world championship with one other Ferrari or one thing like that, he has to beat Charles Leclerc.
“Let’s examine if he can stick with it. If he smells a win, I believe Lewis remains to be very able to successful it.”
Brundle believes a brand new championship will successfully start in Miami, with groups taking a compelled five-week break to enhance their automobiles and higher perceive the brand new rules.
“I believe it’s fully open,” he added. “We’ve got dash week in Miami, so there are additionally dash factors and grand prix factors to earn.
“That is going to ebb and circulate. There’s a lot upside potential with these automobiles that I see them leapfrogging different groups with some upgrades.
“Which of the highest 4 groups, or eight drivers, has an opportunity of successful this 12 months’s world championship?”
