This is a nightmare and I have been living it for a while

LEWIS' DREAM MOVE STALLS

- DANIEL MOXON

IT WAS supposed to be the ultimate Formula One partnership, the sport's most successful driver joining its most iconic team.

But after another chastening experience at a grand prix on Sunday, this time in Sao Paulo, Lewis Hamilton said: “This is a nightmare and I've been living it for a while.”

While Ferrari have won more titles than any other team in F1 history, their most recent success was in 2008, when they won the constructors’ championship.

In his second F1 season aged 23, Hamilton won the drivers' title that year, the first of seven.

Now aged 40, he is not naive enough to have assumed that his presence alone would suddenly jolt a sleeping giant into action.

But he would have had some expectations of glory, especially given Ferrari pushed McLaren all the way in the constructors' championship in 2024, losing out only at the final race.