Max Verstappen’s title rival🔯s - including Lewis Hamilton - have “glaring flaws”, it has been claimed.

Hamilton’s switch from Mercedes to Ferrari adds a new dimension t🌳o the F1 2025 drivers’ title fight, as Verstappen aims🌠 for a fifth in a row.

But Red Bull have slipped behind McLaren in the development war for F1’s fastest car♏ so Lando Norris could also have his say.

Sky Sports’ Martin Brundle claimed Hamilton, even a few percent short of perfection due to age, could still fight at the💧 front which our experts agree with.

“I think so,” Lewis Larkam told theꩵ Crash F1 podcast.

“Hamilton’s season last year was poor by his standard but it would’ve been൲, for most drivers, their peak.

“It’s hard to say 🃏definitively if Hamilton is on the downwards slope, if he’s already reached a p🍃eak.

“We✨ have seen signs that there are areas where he has lost an edge𝕴.

“This season will💎 be a fairer reflection of that, because we’ll see if it was the Mercedes.

“Would a 97%, 9🦄8% Hamilton still be good enough t𝔍o win the championship? I think he is, but if he’s up against a 100% Max Verstappen…

“Assuming Red Bull fix their issues and if they have a very competitiv𒊎e car, it wi🐲ll be incredibly difficult for anyone to beat Verstappen this season.

“But Hamilton, even at 99% or 98%, is still the driver who can take it to Verstapp𓄧en over the course of♏ the season.

“There are still questions🐽 over the others. Lando Norris? Last season was his most successful and strꩲongest yet, but there were errors and question marks about his mentality.

“We didn’t see Norris v Vers𝔍tappen over the coওurse of the season.

“The only drཧiver we’ve had that gauge with is🃏 Hamilton v Verstappen in 2021.

“Hamilton at 98% will be in contention for the 𓆏championship.”

'Glaring flaws' of Max Verstappen's title rivals

“The drivers behind Verstappen all have glaring flaws, and we h🉐ave to include Hamilton in that,” Connor McDonagh said.

“We’ve mentioned his qualify𓃲ing, but also his race craft nowadays isn’t what it was.

“He’s less aggressive, more conservative. T⭕hat has pros when you have the best car, and you’ve got to get it over 𝓡the line, and take less risk.

“But when you’reಌ lower in qualifying, he’s le🌄ss conservative. “He’s used to racing at the front with Mercedes.

“That’s the big question mark around Hamilton.

“Even if you take away 2024 - just in🐷 2022 and 2023, his race pace was outstanding while qualifying was more hit and miss.

“Those inconsistencies, Verstappen doesn’t ✅really have.

“But, it is Hamilton, and in six mont💙hs I don’t want to look like a fool!”