Lewis Hamilton causes stir as he unfollows Ferrari on Instagram forward of first dwelling race

Lewis Hamilton
has unfollowed everybody together with his new group Ferrari and even his pet canine Roscoe simply days earlier than the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The transfer has stunned many followers because the seven-time world champion is about to race on the Imola circuit for the primary time in Ferrari colors.

This isn’t the primary time Hamilton has finished one thing like this. After his controversial 2021 Formulation 1 title loss to Max Verstappen in Abu Dhabi, he disappeared from Instagram for months earlier than returning with a recent publish. Nonetheless, this time the explanation behind his digital transfer isn’t absolutely clear.

Robust begin to Ferrari transfer

Hamilton has had a tough begin to his first season with Ferrari. Aside from a dash race win in Shanghai, he has struggled with the automobile and hasn’t completed increased than fifth in a foremost race, which he achieved in Bahrain. Within the Miami Grand Prix, he took the eighth place after a tricky battle with teammate Charles Leclerc.

Hamilton is at present sitting in seventh place within the championship standings and is 12 factors behind Leclerc, who’s in fifth spot. Curiously, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who changed Hamilton in Mercedes, is one place forward of the British driver within the 2025 F1 drivers’ standings.

Throughout the 2023 Brazilian Grand Prix, Hamilton had opened up about his struggles with social media. He revealed that he was coping with nervousness associated to those platforms and had been present process remedy. He additionally admitted that he doesn’t get pleasure from being energetic on social media a lot.

“, you don’t see me on social media an enormous quantity as a result of there are anxieties that I’ve. I’ve by no means spoken about it, however I’ve needed to do loads of work within the again. Whether or not it’s working by remedy, whether or not it’s taking up, like, discovering completely different retailers, whether or not it’s studying extra, whether or not it’s doing meditation, whether or not it’s attempting to drag in additional instruments to my arsenal in order that I can cope with the challenges that I’m going through.”

Hamilton’s final Grand Prix win was in Belgium final 12 months after Mercedes teammate George Russell was disqualified. Earlier than that, he had ended a protracted winless streak at his dwelling race in Silverstone.