Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari seek Miami GP breakthroughs after challenging start to 2025 F1 season | F1 News

Miami hosts the second event in the Formula 1 season this weekend, six weeks after the first year of the year in China, and it seems that it has provided early from Lewis Hamilton his career Ferrari and the Italian team season.

The great grand prize race may not be, but the heroic pole is seven times and the impressive victory in the 19th night race in the Shanghai International Circuit seemed important at the time, given that it came at the beginning of the second weekend with the team and after what was the first in Australia.

Ferrari did not reach the same highlands in the five full length races this season, as Hamilton’s struggles in SF-25 were particularly clear, although Charles Licelk runs to the first grand prize race last year in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia made more promise.

The Ferrari case, which has already brought some important promotions to the fourth round in Bahrain, is that the more they fall behind, the less it justifies in pouring resources at what has become rapidly failed in a campaign, before introducing the new radical regulations for the 2026 season.

The weekend gives them Miami Grand Brex with a chance of sports, but then a European tripartite head will start six races in eight weeks that will transport us to the middle of the season.

Starting with the automatic international Miami with the outbreak of the sixth round of the season directly in competitive work with the rehabilitation of Sprint on Friday night, Ferrari strongly needs a penetration.

Ferrari is still behind him, but did the Saudi offer hope?

Ferrari went to Miami still behind their prominent competitors in the fourth place in the Benin Championship, although it is closer to Red Bull in third place and Mercedes ranked second more than that after they were marginalized in both the last two race in the Middle East.

The 18 points that they lost when their car was excluded from the Chinese GP, would have turned a deficit of 11 points on Red Bull – for those who scored Max Verstapen, except for two of 89 points – into the advantage of seven points.

But the biggest concern for the Sukoderia is that Mammouth is already 110 points, the team, which has ended only 14 points in the late round of the title of builders at the end of last season and they had aspirations from beating this time.

There was a lot of speculation about what caused Ferrari be outside the pace in the early events, but after the Leclec platform in Jeddah, the team leader Frederick Vasuor confirmed that the “capabilities” to compete with the leaders exist.

“The most important for us is the difference between the pace of rehabilitation and the speed of the race,” Vasuor said after the race.

“I think the race … the second stage was very strong. I think we were faster than [Oscar] Piastri and Verstapn at the last 35 or 40 rpm.

“We have to focus on this to be more consistent throughout the weekend, but I think we can take [Saudi Arabia] As positive because we moved forward at least at the pace of the race. It was very strong and I think the potential exists, but we just have to do better action again. “

What about Hamilton?

As the world champion admitted seven times himself, the result of Leclerc was the only positive that he could take from the weekend Jeddah due to the difficulties he faced in SF-25 about the Fast Street circuit.

After already scored 0.531s, he slowed down his qualifying colleague, Hamilton ended four places and 31 seconds behind Leclerc in the 50 -rp.

After that, he described the race as “terrible” and “unfinished at all”, while he admits “I have no answers” to explain his struggles.

“At the present time, there is no solution,” suggested. “So this will be what it will be for the rest of the year. It will be painful.”

The presence of such a hateful diagnosis on its horizons in the remaining 19 round of the season may have a greater relationship with the fact that Hamilton’s comments were made in the wake of the direct race, when it was disappointment and frustration at a high level at a high level, but on Saudi evidence that he is away from the place he wants with the car.

“Anxiety for me is that [the China Sprint] “Now it’s strange,” he said. Sky SPORTS F1’s Caron Chandoc on F1 offer.

“Since Sunday from China where Leclerc presented it in the race, although there is a broken front wing, Leclerc was faster. The trend is anxiety for me.

In Australia, Lewis was 0.16 opposite Charles, in Japan 0.30, in Bahrain became 0.59, the Saudi became 0.60.

“For the driver who hopes to become more and more used to life in Ferrari, this gap should have been closed, but it is going in the wrong direction.

“In Saudi Arabia, it seemed only a deviation. Looking at the data, as a driver, psychologically, like” Where do I start? “.

But despite this growing gap of his teammate in the team, Vasour insisted: “Frankly, I am not very worried. If you look at what he did in China or what he did in the race in Bahrain, or even in the first part of the session this weekend, the capabilities are definitely present.

“We just have to control the balance because, collectively, Lewis and us, we are struggling with the balance of his car and [how] It works tires.

“It is a kind of passive place, but I think the capabilities of the car are present and we will try to solve it.”

Did Leclerc give an idea of ​​Hamilton’s contrast?

Hamilton was not a hacker, not a big surprise, given the strong Monegasque reputation on Saturday and the world champion seven times after it surpassed one roll by George Russell in Mercedes last season.

Hamilton was regularly capable of turning the tables on Sunday messengers, but so far the LECLERC 4-0 follows Grands Prix.

Talk to Sky SPORTS F1’s Martin Brundle explained before the Saudi Grand Prix, Leclerc how he felt he was making progress with the car, before supporting this logic by getting third in the race.

“At the beginning of the year, I remember it was a very open balance, very difficult to enter the corner, which is very few of the medium internal frequency. We have started finding solutions to solve the average minimum.

“This means that we have to drive a more difficult car, but this is something particularly liked.

“I think it is balanced, we are in the beautiful place of the car. What we miss now is just a fist at a low and medium speed. We are high, not so bad.”

It is clear that the difficult nature of the car that Leclerc says is “especially” not suitable for Hamilton, but if this is the only preparation that extracts sufficient pace from SF-25 to make it competitive, it may be a very long campaign for the British.

When analyzing the situation after the race in Jeddah, Brundel suggested that Hamilton needs his own penetration – in terms of preparation – if he wants to bridge the gap to Leclerc.

“I am struggling to buy that Lewis does not understand the car. It is a new car but we are knocking on the door of May,” Brundel said.

“I just think that Lewis did not wander in this car. I don’t think he is going in the right way when preparing. The things I heard from Mercedes are Lewis loves the car in a certain way. It’s difficult days.

“We know that Lewis is better and faster than this. Something does not work, something is not fun.”

Sky SPORTS F1’s MIAMI GP

Thursday May 1
7 pm: Press conference for drivers

Friday, May 2
3 pm: F1 Academy Practice 1
5 pm: MIAMI GP Practice (the session begins at 5:30 pm)
7.30 pm: The press conference of the team presidents
8.15 pm: F1 Academy Practice 2
9.05 pm: MIAMI GP Sprint Cailimation (the session begins at 9:30 pm)

Saturday May 3
3.20 pm: F1 academy rehabilitation
4 pm: MIAMI GP Sprint (starts the race at 5 pm)
6.30 pm: TED’s SPRINT
7.50 pm: F1 1 Academy Race
8.35 pm: MIAMI GP qualifiers
9 pm: Miami GP qualifiers*
11 pm: qualification TED book*

Sunday, May 4
6 pm: F1 2 Academy Race
7.30 pm: Grand Prix Sunday: MIAMI GP Build-up*
9 pm: Miami Grand Prize*
11 pm: Flaging Flag: Miami’s reaction*
Midnight: Ted Book

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