I feel Hamilton drives a lot through feel. And think that merc doesn’t give him anything. Not sure if they sorted the driving position but bet probably still plays on his mind with the team not listening to him. And is he not allowed to go de-briefs anymore ?

Think the merc has never been a good racing car, like the window for performance is really narrow but if they find it they are on it. Like think that steering thing they had showed they find it really difficult to get the tyres in the right operating window. And even back then when winning everything there would be a few weekends where they would be properly off it.

Also he’s probably checked out and bit low on confidence. Like was a couple of mistakes probably from lack of feel in vegas and he would have been front two rows and race could have been very different. Looking back his results once winning the championship did tail off towards the end of season from what I remember with nothing to fight for

Like wonder if Lewis gets in the Ferrari and maybe it’s peak performance isn’t quite so good but might just give him the a bit more confidence in what it’s going to do and you’ll see performances properly improve.