{"id":186721,"date":"2025-06-15T15:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T15:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186721\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T15:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T15:57:09","slug":"lewis-hamilton-constantly-battling-ferrari-engineers-in-fresh-upgrade-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186721\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton ‘constantly battling’ Ferrari engineers in fresh upgrade plea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton says he is \u201cchallenging\u201d and \u201cconstantly battling\u201d Ferrari\u2019s engineers, getting them to try things with the set-up of the SF-25 as he waits for an upgrade package.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Swapping silver for red after 12 seasons as a Mercedes driver, Hamilton is finding the adjustment more difficult than expected.<\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton adamant Ferrari are making progress but\u2026<\/p>\n

Gearing up to start the Canadian Grand Prix from fifth on the grid, the Briton outqualified his team-mate Charles Leclerc for only the third time this season.<\/p>\n

The Monegasque driver also has the better head-to-head stats in Grands Prix where he\u2019s beaten Hamilton seven times, has three podiums to his team-mate\u2019s zero, and sits ahead of him in the Drivers\u2019 standings<\/a> on 94 points to 71.<\/p>\n

Neither Ferrari, though, has set the stage alight.<\/p>\n

Although the Scuderia ended 2024 with one of the fastest cars on the grid, if not the fastest, they\u2019ve been trounced by McLaren and find themselves in a battle with Max Verstappen and Mercedes to be best of the rest.<\/p>\n

Leclerc\u2019s most recent podium in Spain, where he was P3 behind the McLaren team-mates, elevated Ferrari to second in the Constructors\u2019 Championship, with Hamilton saying they are making small progress, but he reiterated they need an upgrade to close the gap.<\/p>\n

Analysis from qualifying for the Canadian GP<\/p>\n

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\u201cJust incremental steps,\u201d Hamilton<\/a> said. \u201cI\u2019m just trying to\u2026 We\u2019ve not had any upgrades or anything like that so it\u2019s the same car for quite some time now with the same package each weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just challenging the guys and constantly battling the engineers, asking questions of it. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey set things up, and are like \u2018this is how we always do it\u2019. And I\u2019m like, \u2018well, what about this?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we work on trying things, and bit by bit, we are making progress. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve improved in our qualifying from Monaco onwards, which is positive, but ultimately we need upgrades. We need an upgrade to be able to fight the guys up front.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quizzed on his frustration over the lack of upgrades, which is an issue he\u2019s mentioned many times before, Hamilton replied: \u201cIt\u2019s my first half of the year in a new team. It\u2019s interesting to see how different teams work and operate. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been times in my career where you\u2019ve had a whole bunch of upgrades very, very early on in the season and you plough ahead very early, then you stop and taper off, and then sometimes it\u2019s been slower. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, you know, here, it\u2019s also the last year of this generation of cars and harder to find performance. And you could at least focus on the next year. The fact is, we this car hopefully we can still fight for a second in the Constructors\u2019, that would be great.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I want to car that can win next year, so that\u2019s priority.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read next: No \u2018immediate intervention\u2019 from Ferrari amidst Vasseur defiance<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton says he is \u201cchallenging\u201d and \u201cconstantly battling\u201d Ferrari\u2019s engineers, getting them to try things with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[72954,4199,997,707,4200,225,998,12,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-186721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-canadian-grand-prix","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-ferrari","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-home-page","14":"tag-lewis-hamilton","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114688207190113954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186721","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=186721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}