Lewis Hamilton pushes for higher affect at Ferrari: “I need to be extra concerned in growth”

After six rounds within the 2025 Formulation 1 World Championship, the environment at Ferrari is something however calm. The Miami weekend confirmed the issues already seen in current races: the SF-25 continues to battle to extract efficiency, particularly over a single lap. Lewis Hamilton, who joined Maranello this 12 months with excessive expectations, spoke brazenly a couple of clear lack of efficiency: “We’ve misplaced one thing since China. The pace is there, however we will’t capitalize on it.”

What’s Ferrari lacking?The one vivid spot in Florida got here throughout Saturday’s Dash, the place a superb strategic name allowed Lewis Hamilton to take a wonderful third place. However the issues resurfaced clearly in qualifying: each drivers have been eradicated in Q2, which compromised the race, with Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton ending ninth and eighth respectively, over a minute behind the McLarens.

“Normally, it wasn’t a nasty weekend,” defined the seven-time world champion. “However if you see you’re preventing with the Williams automobiles, it’s clear one thing’s not proper. They did an excellent job, we didn’t.”

Lewis Hamilton then referred to the Shanghai weekend, the place he claimed his first win in pink — even when solely within the Dash — because of favorable circumstances and a setup that, for as soon as, labored. However since then, one thing has gone improper: “Since Shanghai, we’ve misplaced efficiency. It’s as if there’s hidden potential within the automobile that we will’t unlock. Till we remedy that, we’ll maintain struggling.”

Regardless of the tough second, Lewis Hamilton hasn’t misplaced religion: “I really imagine that when we repair the automobile’s points, we’ll be again preventing with Mercedes and Purple Bull. However that second can’t come quickly sufficient.”

Ferrari has deliberate a sequence of updates for the upcoming Grands Prix, however there’s a sense that aerodynamic modifications alone gained’t be sufficient. The British driver himself has requested to be extra concerned in technical selections — an indication that the synergy between him and the group continues to be being constructed: “We’re engaged on all of the processes. We’ll strive one thing totally different already on the subsequent race. I can’t wait to battle for an actual podium. That may be nice.” – Lewis Hamilton concluded.

Could 8, 2025Sofia Bianchi

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