Lewis Hamilton returned to the scene of his maiden Formulation 1 victory and made one other breakthrough of types – his finest grand prix end result for Ferrari after a turbulent 17 months on the Scuderia.
Hamilton had the higher of team-mate Charles Leclerc for a lot of the weekend in Montreal, although he fell behind him within the dash race. Beginning fifth on the grid for the grand prix, he handed McLaren’s Oscar Piastri for fourth place on the opening lap, then chased down and handed Max Verstappen’s Crimson Bull for second within the ultimate levels of the race.
His finest earlier grand prix end result was third in China, the place he gained the dash race for Ferrari in 2024. Except for these excessive factors, he has had a torrid time since his high-profile transfer from Mercedes, and grow to be the topic of a lot hypothesis about his future.
“Yeah, I had a lot enjoyable on the market all weekend,” he stated after the race. “Each single lap. I felt like we began on the correct foot, got here with the correct perspective and the automotive actually usually felt nice.
“And so, to come back to Montreal, a observe that I do love, and get to take pleasure in a dash weekend right here, which is the primary that we have had [here], was superior. And that is my first second place with the group.
“It is one thing I have been working so arduous, I can not even start to elucidate how deep I’ve needed to dig to have the ability to get thus far, and the work and shifting mountains within the background to allow this kind of efficiency. However I am actually grateful to the group for persevering with to carry me up excessive and assist me weekend in, weekend out.
“It was superior, completely superior to battle with one of many greats [Verstappen]. It was massively difficult.”
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Forward of the weekend, Hamilton had defined that he had determined to not put together for Canada in Ferrari’s simulator at Maranello, saying he felt it lacked correlation with real-world circumstances on the tracks visited up to now this season.
He had achieved the identical in China and achieved what was then his finest grand prix end result for Ferrari, he reckoned, so he elected to comply with the identical path right here: eschew the simulator and give attention to a deep dive into knowledge. He’ll now proceed that coverage.
“I am positive I’d drive it [the simulator] in some unspecified time in the future,” he stated. “I feel what might be good is, for instance, going again and doing correlation to this weekend so we are able to discover out the place it is lacking. As a result of the take a look at driver will likely be on there saying it is all… they’ll solely know what they know as a result of they do not get to drive.
“It is solely Charles and me who get to drive the automotive. So, the optimistic of one thing like having the ability to drive the actual automotive, return and say, ‘That is truly what it looks like. These are the issues that we’re lacking,’ and in order that we are able to enhance it.
“I am at all times there to assist the group transfer ahead and develop it. Now, whether or not or not I take advantage of it to organize for an additional race? In all probability not.
“There are simply too many dangers. For those who take a look at the 2 finest races I’ve had, I did not use a simulator. And that is actually the way it was. Just about all of the championships earlier than, apart from in all probability 2008, I did not use the sim. So it is not a necessity. It is a device that may be highly effective.
“However for me, I am old fashioned. I am in all probability higher with out it.”
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