Lewis Hamilton's start to F1 life at Ferrari has so far not returned the results he expected. A look at the numbers explains why

Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has vehemently defended his star driver and insisted the team will do everything to support Hamilton, who is currently being convincingly outperformed by teammate Charles Leclerc.

From the moment Lewis Hamilton strode through the gates at Ferrari’s historic Maranello campus outside Modena, Italy, he became the star of his own Italian opera. The hero, the greatest driver Formula One has ever known,