Is Lewis too heavy on the brake pedal for the Ferrari SF-25

[John S]

Data suggests he is, and maybe it's not an easy instinct to erase.
Are this current gen of cars unresponsive to Hamilton's previous all conquering driving style?   

Young Alex Brundle, son of Martin & F2,F3 and sportscar driver, believes Lewis has a flaw in his driving style and has set out his reasons below:-

Alex Brundle, has poured through Hamilton’s data to spot a driving trait which is ill-suited to his SF-25.

“He has talked about moving the car towards him. And he’s talked about moving himself towards the car,” Brundle told the F1 Nation podcast.

“I look at the data from Lewis every weekend. The trait is the same.

“He goes into high-speed corners and hits a little bit more brake pressure than Charles."

“You can draw a line directly up the wheel-speed graph, to the steering trace, and the brake aligns perfectly with a tiny bit of movement.

“It just upsets the Ferrari everywhere.

“Leclerc is just Mr. Measured on the brakes.

“We know that Lewis had a problem with the same thing, I saw the data, at Mercedes.

“Can he coach himself out of a lifetime’s worth of driving technique to move towards the car? We will find out."

McLaren’s Andrea Stella commented at the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix that this generation of cars are so fast that a driver does not have time to think, they must essentially drive their fastest laps on instinct.

That would make Hamilton’s learning process even trickier.

“It’s a killer trait to have in a car, especially if you're behind,” Brundle said.

“Because you look for the time, and it punishes you again. It gets worse and worse.”

Extracts from a longer piece courtesy James Dielhenn, Crash.net, 27th April.

[Jericoke]

A modern F1 car/team is a very complicated thing.  So many things working in unison, and fixing one thing can lead to 3 more breaking.  The relationship of the driver to the car has got to be absolutely unlike anything else on Earth.

While I understand the lack of testing as both a cost savings measure, and an equalizer.  Michael Schumacher put more miles in his cars than a pilot puts into a 747, and he was rewarded for it by being one of the most skilled F1 drivers of all time.

Modern drivers basically get 2 days of testing, and then straight into race weekends.  And the car they settle into each weekend is barely the car they drove the previous weekend.  It's fair though, all 20 drivers/teams are in the same boat, no one is getting an advantage because of the ongoing evolution of F1 cars.

It is robbing us of some truly amazing performances though.  I'd love to see what F1 would be like if the drivers could put in 50 hour test weeks leading up to the races.  not just in the simulator which I'm sure just can't replicate the feel of each individual chassis!