While his fans suffer with him amid a rare personal slump, not everyone is unhappy that Lewis Hamilton is struggling in 2022. “To be honest, I liked it when Max lapped him,” world champion Max Verstappen’s father Jos admitted after Imola. But it wasn’t just a one-off for the seven time world champion – he is struggling even more than his new teammate George Russell with the woeful 2022 Mercedes. “He has to wonder why Russell is so much faster than him,” former F1 driver Ralf Schumacher told Sky Deutschland. “He has to admit that Russell is the better driver right now. “But I am far from saying that Hamilton missed the moment to retire. “He didn’t look aggressive enough at Imola – like he couldn’t even fight. It’s not easy being the head of the Mercedes team right now.

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