Miami GP: Sprint success for Lewis Hamilton turns to more qualifying jaok while Ferrari Bori continues | F1 news

Saturday by Lewis Hamilton at the Grand Prix in Miami provided the incapsulation of the beginning of his Ferrari career as a delight of the success of the sprint, quickly turned to disappointment after an early qualifying output.

After moving the blockbuster to the Italian team after 12 years in Mercedes, Hamilton seemed to have started his Ferrari career, taking a pole and a win in Sprint in the second round of the season in China at the end of March.

However, the next day he was disqualified from the entire race in Shanghai for technical violation on his car, and in the next three rounds he could only produce the best qualifying effort of the seventh and the best ending of the fifth place race, while the teammate Charles Leclerc comfortably surpassed it.

Early on Saturday, in Miami, the sprint format brought the sevenfold break of the World Champion once again as an early invitation to move from the intermediate to smooth tires on the drying surface, he saw him jump from sixth threatening to third place behind McLarens.

Although the result offered only six points, which did not change his position of the seventh in the driver’s championship, Hamilton could not restrain the joy in a rare positive moment.

“O man, I’m so pleased with that,” Hamilton said to the assembled in his current interview on the track after Sprint. “You know, it was a difficult year so far.”

Hamilton Strategic Call sent for an extreme ‘fight’

Although Hamilton was pleased with the result, it seemed that it did not lose it that it was mainly due to a well -astonish gambling strategy, not a particularly strong pace.

He said Sky Sports F1: “It was my call (Jatica). But it came from the fact that I fought so much on the intermediates.

“I lost the pace and couldn’t keep up with the guys in front. The tires got mounted front and rear, and at this point I was just a passenger.

“I saw a dry line and I thought,” We have to do something that I will lose more space. “

“I wish I did it in the circle, but I’m happy to have managed to. After that, the car felt great and that the third of the seventh was a good deed.”

On this occasion, Hamilton did not have the measuring stick of his teammate Leclerca, who crashed in his lap from the pit to the net as heavy rain surprised him.

The chaotic nature of the race and the absence of Leclerca from it made it difficult to assess how much Nada Ferrari can be transferred to the Grand Prix qualification.

Return to Earth in qualifying

Although it is fair to say that Hamilton was far from being taken by his sprint screen, what followed in qualifying was about as bad as it could be expected.

The 40-year-old had to break his way through the Q1, sleeping the extra set of fresh soft tires to escape from the zone falling in the final moments after a large lock ruined his first race.

After that, it was not a lot of surprise when a bad secondary ride in Q2 and another lock in the same corner – turn 17 – led to elimination and humiliating P12 online.

Hamilton tried to wear a brave face but admitted Sky Sports F1 This Ferrari is struggling to understand what goes wrong, because they are still spectacularly falling with their pre -season expectations that there will be the challengers of the title.

“We will continue to try. We only have six races, but we fight for a long time,” Hamilton said.

“We try hard not to make big changes in setting up, but no matter what we do, so it is inconsistently every time we go out.

“We have problems with brakes, problems with this instability we fight with and mostly we are not fast enough. Just to go to the Q3 for us is difficult for us.

“Once you are on the back, it’s hard to pick up points. Tomorrow will be a hard job, but we’ll try again. It’s the same thing for me, I’m used to it, but I’ll continue to try.

“And I’ll be back to the factory next week and just go on.”

Leclerc misery deepens the care of Ferrari

In the previous three rounds, there were signs that Leclerc had been hanging out with the SF-25 because he supported the fourth place in Japan and Bahrein with a consecutive finish with the first division of Saudi Arabia season.

However, Monegaque was lowered on Friday due to a car performance and after the osmog qualifying, he confirmed Sky Sports F1 On Saturday, he thinks that he is doing the worst that has the whole season.

“There was something strange in qualifying, something excluded. For some reason I was completely out the car window,” Leclerc said.

“I started with Q1 and we had to change a lot of the car to get to where I wanted to go to Q3, which is very unusual, but he never felt good and the car performance was really bad.

“The feeling is not great. But that’s like that. It’s just frustrating, because when you do your best, and the best is P8, with Ferrari pain, and two Williams in front of us, I didn’t make any mistakes … We just are not fast enough.”

Asked if this is his worst experience in the season, Leclerc replied: “Yes. It is also a song that is different from other songs. There are many angles of low speed and at this point we pay the price in those corners.”

Ferrari seems to be the best hope of success in Sunday’s race the possibility of rain throwing more chaos, but even that may not be enough.

It seems that this season in Imola in Imola, in two weeks, under extreme pressure, he will head to the first of his two domestic race in Imola to reverse a nasty start by 2025.

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Sunday 4 May

• 18:00: F1 Academy of Race 2
• 19.30: Grand Prix Sunday: GP Miami* accumulation*
• 21:00: Grand Prix Miami*
• 23:00: Plated flag: Miami Gp* reaction
• Midnight: Tad’s notebook

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