Toto Wolff has been told he’s failed Lewis Hamilton this season with Mercedes again well off the pace of the Red Bulls and even the Ferraris and McLarens.

F1 analyst Mark Gallagher says the Silver Arrows have let Hamilton down with an unpredictable car that has taken away all the Brit’s confidence.

Gallagher told Mirror Sport: “Lewis is what he is and that is a highly experienced seven-time champion who exists to win.

“He doesn’t exist to qualify in the third row or the fourth row and get a podium maybe if things go well.

“He’s there for winning and he is going to give himself a hard time if things aren’t going well but he will also give the team a hard time.

“That’s what you expect of the great drivers in a way.

“[He] is driving a car that is clearly not giving him the confidence and the speed and the consistency that he wants, and they are not able to give him winning strategies.

“I’ve seen this before with world champions in my career that get to a point that a car underneath them isn’t able to give them the success that they want, and it becomes very difficult for them to almost comprehend where they find themselves.

“It’s incredibly frustrating when you are used to turning up, qualifying on the front row, winning races and winning champions and then finding yourself sliding back in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

“The team isn’t able to give him the car that he wants so it’s not really Lewis dropping his head or being fairly critical of the team. He just goes to those races without a realistic chance of even getting a podium finish at the moment and that’s incredibly disheartening. It’s a tough one for him.”