Former Formula 1 driver Karun Chandhok has expressed concern about Lewis Hamilton’s form with Ferrari after an underwhelming Spanish Grand Prix, Afrosport reports.
Hamilton has usually flourished at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, but finished sixth on Sunday, losing a place to Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg after the Safety Car was deployed.
The seven-time world champion struggled for pace throughout the race while his Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc scored his third podium of the year with a third-place finish.
Speaking on the Sky Sports F1 podcast, former Hispania Racing and Lotus driver Chandhok said of Hamilton’s struggles with the Scuderia: “It’s starting to get a bit critical, I think, though. We’re coming into the second third of the season now. He’s not finding the rhythm, he’s not finding the consistency, where week in, week out, he’s in a happy place with the car.
“Imola, woeful in qualifying, suddenly the car’s brilliant in the race. Monaco, he wasn’t quite there. He was a chunk behind Charles throughout. There’s got to be a degree of concern creeping in.
“When you look at the race. The fact Charles overtook him and pulled away from him quite comfortably even before we go into the different tyres and so on. I’d be concerned. If I was Lewis, if I was on the Lewis side of the garage, engineers, etc. I would be concerned.”
Despite his struggles, Hamilton has shown flashes of speed during his Ferrari stint, winning the sprint race in the Chinese Grand Prix and drove to an impressive fourth place finish at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix in Imola. Chandhok however feels the fluctuations in performance are too frequent.
“We’re nearly at the halfway point of the year now, we need to start understanding is this a fundamental issue that we need to change the direction of the setup of the car?” he added.
“I am not disputing the fact that he’s still got the ability. He clearly has. He’s able to win races, but they need to find a sweet spot for him that every weekend he knows what he’s got, but they’ve not got that.
“He’s still having too many good days and bad days. The fluctuations are too much.”
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The F1 paddock will turn its attention to the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, where Hamilton is a record seven-time winner, along with Michael Schumacher.
