Lewis Hamilton suffers worst EVER F1 result for Ferrari

Seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton has suffered his worst race result with Ferrari since joining the Italian team at the start of 2025 in this weekend's Qatar Grand Prix sprint.

Hamilton made the switch from Mercedes ahead of this year's F1 campaign, but with just two grands prix left in the championship, he sits way down in sixth in the drivers' standings.

The 40-year-old has also had two DNFs during his maiden campaign in red after failing to finish both the Brazilian GP and the Dutch GP.

The announcement that he would be moving to the Scuderia came with plenty of hope that he could return to winning ways and even get himself back into championship contention.

But he has been way off the pace and persistently struggled at the wheel of the SF-25, something which became painfully clear in Qatar this weekend after the Brit finished the sprint race in P17.

F1 championship standings after Qatar sprint

Hamilton finds new low at Ferrari

The Ferrari driver only managed to qualify in P18 for the sprint race in Qatar and started Saturday's 100km race from the pit lane.

Nevertheless, he evidently struggled with his new car once again when taking to the Lusail International Circuit, crossing the line in P17- his worst result on track ever since joining Ferrari.

This was also his worst ever result in the sprint format, with his previous lowest finishing position coming at the Miami GP sprint last year where he finished 16th.

To make things worse for the champion, Saturday's poor result is also the lowest he has finished in any race since the 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, when he crossed the line in P18.

Speaking over team radio after this year's final sprint, Hamilton said: "I don’t know how we made the car worse."

Perhaps the only silver lining for Hamilton is that his team-mate Charles Leclerc also struggled in the Qatar GP sprint, finishing way off the pace in P13, meaning that Saturday's race also marked Ferrari's first failure to score in a sprint race since Monza 2021.

F1 Results: Qatar Grand Prix Sprint 2025

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Having graduated from the University of Sheffield with a 2:1 in Journalism in 2022, Kerry continued her pursuit of finding a full-time position in motorsport through work with the F1 Arcade in London, where she got to meet true fans of the sport and make a live grand prix watch party memorable for them. It was here that she confirmed her dream of combining her background in journalism and love of motorsport, going on to volunteer with the female-led platform Empoword Journalism. Having completed stints as a screen editor and sports editor, Kerry landed her first F1-specific editorial role with GPFans and has thoroughly enjoyed continuing to work closely with the sport ever since. The access GPFans offers Kerry has allowed her to interview big names such as Naomi Schiff and David Coulthard and given her experiences she could only have dreamt of as a young F1 fan.

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