{"id":145641,"date":"2025-05-31T02:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T02:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145641\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T02:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T02:12:13","slug":"extreme-lewis-hamilton-spain-gp-radio-messages-trigger-ferrari-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145641\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Extreme’ Lewis Hamilton Spain GP radio messages trigger Ferrari response"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur insists the SF-25 was not as \u201chorrible\u201d as Lewis Hamilton was making out on Friday at the Spanish Grand Prix.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That response comes after Hamilton<\/a> voiced his displeasure at the wheel of the Ferrari car on several occasions, the seven-time World Champion ending the day outside of the top 10 and just shy of eighth tenths off the ultimate pace set by McLaren\u2019s Oscar Piastri.<\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton Ferrari complaints: Too \u2018extreme\u2019 at Spanish GP?<\/p>\n

Hamilton featured in the top three in FP1, 0.378s down on the McLaren driven by Lando Norris in top spot, though that did not stop Hamilton from feeling underwhelmed, as he told race engineer Riccardo Adami \u201cthat was bad\u201d towards the end of the opening hour of practice.<\/p>\n

And during the second session, Hamilton would describe his Ferrari as \u201cnot driveable\u201d. He finished P11, 0.773s slower than Piastri and almost three tenths adrift of team-mate Charles Leclerc, on the first day of running since the new FIA Technical Directive on front wing flexing came into force.<\/p>\n

Debriefing Ferrari\u2019s day with Sky F1<\/strong>, team principal Fred Vasseur said: \u201cI think we had a very good pace this morning. We struggled a bit more in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had, I think, a decent lap with Charles before the mistake Turn 7. It was in advance on [F]P1. But the target is to put a lap together, not to do some good corners.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then we struggled a bit more at the beginning of each stint on the long stint. I think it was true for us, but true for a couple of other cars. The track was very dirty with a lot of marbles. As soon as you were out of the line, it was quite difficult to recover.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, it was a long day, and we collected also good information. And it was the first time that we are running the front wing<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on the FIA front wing Technical Directive<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udc49 Explaining F1\u2019s phantom updates and why McLaren do have a new front wing after all<\/a><\/p>\n

2016 World Champion Nico Rosberg was trackside on Friday and alarmingly branded Ferrari\u2019s SF-25 the \u201cworst car\u201d<\/a> he had observed, citing \u201cmore understeer and more snap oversteer\u201d compared to rivals.<\/p>\n

To Rosberg\u2019s analysis, Vasseur replied: \u201cIt\u2019s not a secret that we are struggling a little bit with the balance of the car, but we have to improve on this.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut as long as we are able to correct it and to have a good race, I don\u2019t find that it was the case the last couple of weekends.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to improve on one lap, clearly, but I think it\u2019s more tyre management and to put the tyres on the right window at the beginning of the lap. That\u2019s something else, then the balance is not perfect. It\u2019s true, but it\u2019s true for us, I think it\u2019s true also for the others.\u201d<\/p>\n

At that point, Vasseur was asked for his take on Hamilton\u2019s concerning verdicts over team radio.<\/p>\n

However, \u201cextreme\u201d was a term that Vasseur found more appropriate, as he questioned how valid Hamilton\u2019s comments really were.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe comments were a bit extreme on the radio today,\u201d said Vasseur on Hamilton, \u201cbut he did also a strong last stint with the soft in the lap time of the first two.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means that the car was not so horrible than he said in the radio.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut again, the comments that they are doing when they are into the car, for me, it\u2019s not a drama.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ferrari sit P4 in the Constructors\u2019 Championship<\/a> ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix. McLaren already appear to be marching towards back-to-back Constructors\u2019 crowns, but P2 is realistic for Ferrari, with Red Bull only one point ahead and Mercedes five.<\/p>\n

Read next: \u2018Hero of the day\u2019 \u2013 Lewis Hamilton the target of sarcastic Alonso team radio quip<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur insists the SF-25 was not as \u201chorrible\u201d as Lewis Hamilton was making out on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,997,7181,225,998,12,104,27196],"class_list":{"0":"post-145641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ferrari","11":"tag-fred-vasseur","12":"tag-home-page","13":"tag-lewis-hamilton","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-spain","16":"tag-spanish-grand-prix"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114600027507674958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145641","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=145641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}