Ex-F1 driver David Coulthard has rasied concerns that Ferrari may not get a prime 168澳洲5最新开奖结果: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5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz.

Since agonisingly missing out on a record-breaking eighth world title in his controversial defeat to Red Bull’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen in 2021, Hamilton has💮 won just twice amid Mer꧒cedes’ 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5最新开奖结果:Michael Schumacher made his F1 comeback with Mercedes in 20𝕴10. 

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

“He obviously saw the oppo💜🍷rtunity at Ferrari a bit like, I guess, Mercedes when they brought Michael back.

“They [Mercedes] thought they were getting the Michael [Schumacher] of his Ferrari era, and then they foun🅰d 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 noꦓt in the championship points table, but in terms of qualifying and that.

“What I lacke༺d in my career 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 analogy about a striker losing a yard – the thing that alloܫwღed them to get there 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 still brilliant, but they’re not as. brilliant as they wer𒈔e.

“So Lewis may well not quite deliver what he’s ho🤡ping for, because, first of all, he’s got to outqualify Charles.

“I think Charles, at𒐪 26/27, he’s still pretty handy, and that may make💦 it difficult for Lewis.”

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

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

“I knowཧ 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, wha꧑tever he does, there’ll be someone comes along and betters it in the future, because every generation should be better.

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