
Baptism of ire: how Hamilton's Ferrari debut could have gone better
OPINION: The pre-season love-in cooled abruptly in a wet race punctuated by terse radio communications and needless strategy blunders
“He’ll have a blast,” opined no less an eminence than Nigel Mansell of Lewis Hamilton’s time at Ferrari. That was last week. This is now.
It’s natural the man the tifosi called il leone (‘the lion’) should view his time at the Scuderia through rose-hued optics over 35 years down the line. After all, this is a man who won on his Ferrari debut in 1989.
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