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Lewis Hamilton on Ferrari F1 efficiency: “It is there, it is simply we will not use it”
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Lewis Hamilton on Ferrari F1 efficiency: “It is there, it is simply we will not use it”

Motorsports May 11, 2025
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Lewis Hamilton just isn’t letting a disappointing begin to the 2025 Method 1 season cloud his optimism for what he can obtain at Ferrari.

The 40-year-old made a shock blockbuster transfer to the Scuderia over the winter after 12 profitable campaigns with Mercedes, the place he received six of his record-equalling seven world titles.

However, his Shanghai dash win apart, Hamilton has had an underwhelming begin at Ferrari because the Briton is seventh within the championship after six rounds and is but to attain a grand prix podium.

Hamilton’s up-and-down weekend in Miami final day out was consultant of his season: he completed third within the dash, however was eighth on Sunday after solely qualifying in twelfth.

“I typically had a great day,” he stated after the Miami Grand Prix. “Eighth does not actually seem like that, however I really feel optimistic for the long run.

“I believe this automobile actually does have efficiency. However one thing’s holding us again in the intervening time. We have misplaced efficiency since China [round two], and it is there, it is simply we will not use it.

“Till we get a repair for that, then that is the place we’re. However within the meantime, we are able to work on all the opposite stuff.”

“It is nonetheless a troublesome week for us,” Hamilton added, “however we’re in a greater place right here, so we’re clearly not as fast as we’re capable of be.”

A lot of Hamilton’s Miami race was spent squabbling along with his engineers over the radio, as he and team-mate Charles Leclerc hindered each other combating for a similar place.

Charles Leclerc, Ferrari

Picture by: Sam Bagnall / Motorsport Pictures

Leclerc, who completed seventh in Miami, has additionally had a disappointing marketing campaign, sitting fifth within the championship with the earlier weekend arguably being his worst but.

Having certified sixth for the dash, to which his response was “the tempo is simply under no circumstances there”, he didn’t make the competition as a consequence of a pre-race crash earlier than beginning the grand prix in eighth.

And after the grand prix, Leclerc doubled down on his earlier lack-of-performance remark, saying: “At this time wasn’t the Sunday we needed, and although the tempo just isn’t there, I do not suppose there have been any miracles.

“If every thing had gone completely, possibly we’d have completed in entrance of Kimi [Antonelli, P6] however that is it.

“There wasn’t way more within the automobile, so I believe we have to separate the 2 issues. Sure, we have to repair these points that in all probability price us one place [the fight with Hamilton], however the different seven or six positions are right down to the automobile, and we have to make it higher.”

Leclerc expects issues to considerably enhance subsequent weekend at Imola, however thinks his struggles will return on the following spherical, which is his residence occasion in Monaco – one which he received final 12 months.

“I believe Imola possibly could possibly be good,” stated the eight-time grand prix winner.

“Sadly, I am actually not trying ahead to Monaco this 12 months as I do not suppose we have got a automobile to be nice there.”

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