Former driver believes he has recognized the reason for ’s latest struggles, citing the ‘specific’ nature of floor impact vehicles.
Magnussen, who misplaced his seat at Haas on the finish of the 2024 season and can now return to the sportscar scene in 2025 as a works driver, has detected similarities within the knowledge linking himself, Hamilton and who was additionally dropped from the F1 roster following the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix.
Hamilton is the one one of many trio with a spot on the grid because the 2025 season approaches with the seven-time World Champion heading to Ferrari bidding to silence his critics following a tough ultimate season with Mercedes.
The brand new F1 vehicles, which got here into impact in 2022, exploit floor impact aerodynamics and their introduction has coincided with Hamilton and the Silver Arrows struggling to launch a title problem since then.
Referred to as an aggressive driver, good on the breaks, Magnussen’s driving model is reduce from the identical material as Hamilton and Ricciardo and the 32-year-old Dane believes there’s a correlation between the trio’s points in floor impact F1 vehicles.
“It’s laborious, as a result of I can’t go deep into that knowledge and analyse them as such, however I can see tendencies, you recognize, we do have some type of GPS knowledge,” stated Magnussen.
“And I’ve been curious to, and had a glance and see, if I can discover some similarities. And it does seem to be the drivers which have this specific method of driving, as we do, then we appear to wrestle a bit greater than others.
“I feel it’s clear that Lewis is struggling. He’s been nice in all of the completely different vehicles he’s ever pushed. Additionally earlier than Formulation 1, every part, he was nice. These vehicles are very specific.
“And I feel additionally due to the tyres. On high of the vehicles being aerodynamically and mechanically fairly specific, the tyres are also a wierd one.”
Delving deeper into the way with which he believes the bottom impact F1 vehicles must be pushed, Magnussen pinpointed one big unfavourable when on the wheel.
“You weren’t actually capable of mix as a lot as with all different automobile. This automobile could be very specific in that it doesn’t actually like braking and turning on the identical time,” he added.
