Hamilton and Ferrari: A Relationship with a Distant and C…read more
Hamilton says he doesn’t know what’s wrong with his car, and that it’s something unbelievable. OK, Sir Lewis, you really don’t know? Where have you been for the last 30 years? If you’ve been on this planet, then you should have learned one fundamental thing: if the car is a Ferrari, it will never be right, and you’ll probably spend the whole season trying to figure out what’s wrong while the world around you laughs and applauds. After all, Ferrari doesn’t need to be right to be a spectacle – and that’s the big trick of the Italians.
Let me be clear: Ferrari is a riddle. McLaren might be organized, Mercedes might be precise, but Ferrari… oh, Ferrari is a religion. A religion that doesn’t make sense, doesn’t follow logic, and often has absolutely no reason to exist. And yet, everyone surrenders to it. When the car doesn’t work, it’s just part of the experience! You live to suffer, and what keeps you in the race is that uncontrollable obsession with victory that always seems as distant as the last miracle of a saint.
Now, Hamilton. The man with 7 world titles, but who, incomprehensibly, chose to join this machine of madness. He entered Ferrari with the shine of a star, but quickly realized that, in Ferrari, the shine is never really his. Here, everything revolves around the red car. The car is the god, the driver is just a supporting actor. Ferrari doesn’t explain itself – either you accept that the machine might be broken and still make it onto the podium, or you do like Prost in 1991, ask for the cap, and walk away never looking back.
But of course, Ferrari loves this. It’s not for the faint of heart. The tifosi delight in watching everyone struggle against the chaos that is Ferrari. And, let’s face it, Hamilton no longer has time for these marathons of uncertainty. He, the man who dominated F1 for so long, no longer has the patience to wait for a miracle that never arrives.
So, long live Ferrari! And long live the madness of being a Ferrari fan – because if you can’t understand it, it’s better to get out of the way and let the true believers continue this journey of irrational faith.
