MONTMELO, Spain — It’s a fact that’s hard to digest for anyone who has followed Formula 1 over the past two decades: Lewis Hamilton hasn’t stood atop the victory podium after a grand prix in nearly two years.
Once a serial winner who dominated the grid on the international open-wheel series, the 41-year-old British driver struggled mightily in 2025, not recording a top-three finish once in his first season with Ferrari, which he’d joined from a Mercedes team that had given him the cars to win six of his seven F1 titles.
Hamilton hasn’t savored victory since the Belgium Grand Prix in July 2024, the record-extending 105th win of his F1 career.
Since that last win, Hamilton has gone 40 GP races — 10 with Mercedes, and now 30 with Ferrari — without a victory. Finishing first in the sprint race in China last year was little consolation.
But this season, his second with Ferrari, he has shown signs of a rebirth at the Italian carmaker.