{"id":113671,"date":"2025-05-19T06:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T06:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/113671\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T06:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T06:37:07","slug":"lewis-hamilton-to-trigger-ferrari-idea-after-reluctant-voices-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/113671\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton to trigger Ferrari \u2018idea\u2019 after \u2018reluctant\u2019 voices reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"

An encouraging Emilia Romagna Grand Prix has enthused Lewis Hamilton to try some new ideas ahead of Monaco next weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hamilton and his Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc were resurgent in Imola after a disappointing Saturday to move both scarlet machines into the points.<\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton has \u2018ideas\u2019 to improve single lap performance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leclerc was the best-placed Ferrari driver on the grid in 11th, one spot up on Hamilton.<\/p>\n

The pair struggled for single lap pace in Imola on Saturday with the seven-time World Champion admitting the performance left him \u201cdevastated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though satisfied with the car set-up, Hamilton admitted he simply couldn\u2019t extract more over a single lap.<\/p>\n

After then charging his way from 12th on the grid to fourth at the chequered flag in Sunday\u2019s race, around a venue notoriously difficult to pass on, Hamilton was left enthused to try something new \u2013 despite expecting some resistance within the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got some ideas that I\u2019m going to try and apply this week that people have been a little bit reluctant to do it, I think because we\u2019ve had lots of other things to focus on,\u201d Hamilton told the media, including PlanetF1.com.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut hopefully we can find something, some more performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new Ferrari recruit, who experienced his first race in front of the tifosi in Imola, suggested a stronger qualifying performance could have translated into a podium on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Hamilton slowly rose through the pack during a long opening stint that saw him finally take service for the first time on Lap 29, under the Virtual Safety Car for Esteban Ocon\u2019s stricken Haas.<\/p>\n

He pitted again on Lap 46, with the field neutralised for Kimi Antonelli\u2019s stopped Mercedes, having risen to fifth before his stop.<\/p>\n

He then ran seventh on the road as racing resumed, picking off former teammate George Russell and pinching fifth from Alex Albon and then fourth from Leclerc in the run to the flag.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old crossed the line just 1.4 seconds adrift of Oscar Piastri in third.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a ton of positives,\u201d Hamilton enthused with the media, including PlanetF1.com, after the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe strategy was really fantastic. They made great calls, didn\u2019t put a foot wrong there.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina, I felt really aligned with the car and then the only other time was today. I felt that synergy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe set-up was great [in Imola]. I think we made a bit of an improvement in our performance for the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust got to unlock that potential in qualifying; if we\u2019d qualified better, we\u2019d have been fighting for a podium.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton vs Charles Leclerc: Ferrari head-to-head scores for F1 2025<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc49\u00a0F1 2025: Head-to-head qualifying statistics between team-mates<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc49\u00a0F1 2025: Head-to-head race statistics between team-mates<\/a><\/p>\n

Ferrari has been the fourth-best team on the grid for the most part in F1 2025 with Hamilton\u2019s Chinese GP Sprint win the starring performance.<\/p>\n

Imola marked the Briton\u2019s strongest Sunday result in a the season that has seen the Scuderia record just a single podium appearance;\u00a0in Saudi Arabia courtesy of Leclerc.<\/p>\n

Though the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix left Hamilton enthused he also preached caution ahead of Monaco this weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur car is generally good in high-speed, okay in medium, and maybe a little bit not as strong as the others in low,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously the next race is all low, so we\u2019ve got to see how we can try and pull some more [performance] out.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery race I go to is the first time with this car, so I really have no idea what a Ferrari feels like [in Monaco],\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe races that we\u2019re coming up to, particularly Monaco, a track I\u2019ve generally been strong at in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope we can take some of the learnings from this weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will still be a question about getting the tyres working on a single lap.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read next: Lewis Hamilton shows true feelings in \u2018explosive\u2019 feedback from Ferrari<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An encouraging Emilia Romagna Grand Prix has enthused Lewis Hamilton to try some new ideas ahead of Monaco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[997,225,998,12,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-113671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ferrari","9":"tag-home-page","10":"tag-lewis-hamilton","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114533121846635840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}