5 stats that encapsulate the driver's nightmare season

when Lewis Hamilton first announced that he was joining Ferrari, the excitement and anticipation surrounding the most successful driver to join the most successful team was immense. The team had not achieved much success in the sport in the last two decades, while the driver has been the benchmark during that time.

When the two teamed up, he was predicted to be the final piece of the puzzle that would take the team to the top. 11 months into the partnership, and it's safe to say that many fans' hopes and dreams have taken a beating. The partnership has not proved to be the success many hoped it would be.

Lewis Hamilton himself has described his time at Ferrari as a nightmare so far and unfortunately the numbers suggest the same. Let's take a look.

Lewis Hamilton's disastrous first season with Ferrari

#1 Most races by a Ferrari driver before achieving a podium finish

When it comes to collecting unwanted records, Lewis Hamilton has managed a few this season. The first of these is the fact that he has yet to score a podium finish in a Ferrari this year.

In Qatar we would be in the 23rd race of the season, and we have already reached a point where Lewis Hamilton is now the driver who has completed the most races for Ferrari without reaching the podium.

The disc first belonged to Didier Pironi, who achieved the unwanted feat in the 1980s, and now, four decades later, it has gone to Lewis.

#2 Worst qualifying position since Giancarlo Fisichella in 2009

At the Las Vegas F1 GP, Lewis Hamilton qualified 20th for the race, and this was not the result of some reliability issues as such. That was totally in the performance.

The last time a Ferrari driver qualified P20 in performance was Giancarlo Fisichella in 2009. However, some context is important here, because at the time, Fisichella was a late-season replacement for the team and had no pre-season testing to understand the car.

In Las Vegas, Lewis equaled this unintended feat for a Ferrari when he could only manage a lap good enough for P20.

#3 Worst F1 season in number of podiums

The thing about Lewis Hamilton's career is that it has been full of success. In his first year in F1, he got his hands on a car that held the title McLaren. Since then, he has been driving a cutting-edge car for almost two decades.

At no point in his career has he completed a season with less than 5 podiums to his name. All of this was true before 2025, unfortunately, as with only two races into the season, Lewis Hamilton has yet to score a podium and would essentially have his worst season in terms of podiums.

#4 In a season where Nico Hulkenberg and Isack Hadjar have achieved podiums, Lewis Hamilton has not.

The 2025 F1 season has been one of the best in terms of variability of results. This season we have had up to 9 different podiums from 7 different teams. We've had Nico Hulkenberg break his podium at Silverstone, and then we've had Isack Hadjar take his first podium in F1.

Look at this, and it makes Lewis Hamilton's account even worse. The Brit has not secured a single podium in red. In the race where Hulkenberg got a podium, he beat Hamilton in a Ferrari that should have finished ahead.

In the race where Isack Hadjar took a podium, Lewis Hamilton crashed out. For a rider who has built a season around seizing moments, 2025 has not been up to par.

#5 Horrible head-to-head numbers against teammate Charles Leclerc

Without a doubt, the numbers that every driver on the grid tends to look at are what their teammate has been doing in the same car. For Hamilton, this is unfortunate reading because he seems to have been decimated in every category.

Charles Leclerc has a pole position for Ferrari this season, Hamilton has none. Leclerc has 7 podiums; Hamilton has none. Then we move on to the head-to-head race, and Hamilton has finished ahead of his team-mate just three times this season.

Of those three races, one was Imola, where Leclerc was heavily compromised by strategy, and the other was Baku, where Hamilton failed to give the position back to his teammate.

These are not numbers Hamilton can look at and be proud of. More importantly, these are not the numbers Ferrari would have expected from the driver when he was signed by the team.