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 latest races: the SF-25 continues to battle to extract efficiency, particularly over a single lap. Lewis Hamilton, who joined Maranello this yr with excessive expectations, spoke overtly a few clear lack of efficiency: “We’ve misplaced one thing since China. The pace is there, however we are able to’t capitalize on it.”
What’s Ferrari lacking?The one shiny 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 had 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.
“On the whole, it wasn’t a nasty weekend,” defined the seven-time world champion. “However if you see you’re combating with the Williams automobiles, it’s clear one thing’s not proper. They did a fantastic 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 — due to favorable circumstances and a setup that, for as soon as, labored. However since then, one thing has gone incorrect: “Since Shanghai, we’ve misplaced efficiency. It’s as if there’s hidden potential within the automobile that we are able to’t unlock. Till we resolve that, we’ll maintain struggling.”
Regardless of the troublesome second, Lewis Hamilton hasn’t misplaced religion: “I actually consider that when we repair the automobile’s points, we’ll be again combating with Mercedes and Pink 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 adjustments alone received’t be sufficient. The British driver himself has requested to be extra concerned in technical choices — an indication that the synergy between him and the crew remains to be being constructed: “We’re engaged on all of the processes. We’ll attempt one thing completely different already on the subsequent race. I can’t wait to battle for an actual podium. That might be nice.” – Lewis Hamilton concluded.
Might 8, 2025
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