Scott Mitchell-Malm

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1,231 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 22 Jun

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The Race F1 Podcast · Lewis Hamilton's extraordinary F1 turnaround explained · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

I do wonder, this is sort of an open question to each of you, how much do you reckon his fate is intrinsically tied to the drivers and sort of what they do and the choices they make?

Because last year,

I think the massive, massive pressure that Ferrari would have felt to some degree is that, yes, the Hamilton move wasn't quite working out.

And in the first half of the year, it was already starting to have its iffy moments.

But Hamilton had just joined and made it really clear that one of the reasons he joined was Fred, basically.

So if they'd ousted him...

You're immediately at loggerheads with your new star signing.

Fast forward 12 months, Hamilton is now performing very well.

That has to reflect well on Fred.

But also Leclerc has just done this new contract.

And as I said earlier, I do question whether or not Leclerc's faith is in Ferrari or whether it's in Fred.

And that did feel a little bit like this gets Fred on slightly firmer ground.

Yeah.

how much like it's a slightly different manifestation of driver power potentially normally it's drivers forcing team bosses out but I do wonder I don't know if you agree whether or not there's an element there of the drivers helping keep Fred in his job

sports people in in whatever in whatever field is is i think just one of the best things about sport like it is amazing um and the way i'll answer this question is um i don't think that needs to happen in this case because the way that i view this debate is actually like i remember seeing it in an american context of several years ago it was an nba tier list and

the kind of way that they, their argument was that rather than, um, rather than it be like a numbered list, like, you know, rank the, we will rank the F1 drivers from the, from best to worst.

And you're like, who's number one.

And is Lewis, um,

number one or where is he in that list this kind of sort of pyramid ranking almost effectively just tiers it and it's like how and obviously you can get very generous and try and put 20 drivers in your top tier if you wanted to be a massive cop out but I just think you can have a cluster because I think it's also it's not just difficult it's

For me, the way that I view it, it's impossible to compare across eras.

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