How Lewis Hamilton climbed out of a well of despair and rebooted himself in 2026

If you’ve been looking out this season for that guy we saw in Hungary last year in the red Ferrari racesuit – the one with the hollow eyes and hangdog expression – forget it. As Lewis Hamilton indicated trenchantly in Australia, “that person’s gone, so you won’t see that person again.”

He looked (and sounded) very much like a different driver and his old familiar self.