{"id":78524,"date":"2025-05-06T07:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/78524\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T07:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:12:08","slug":"frustrated-lewis-hamilton-and-charles-leclerc-want-same-thing-from-ferrari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/78524\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustrated Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc want same thing from Ferrari"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc are both expecting internal talks at Ferrari in the aftermath of the Miami Grand Prix.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Such discussions would allow the team to dissect what was a highly frustrating race weekend and plot a route forward, with a lack of pace and team orders not going down well with either Ferrari driver.<\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc united in Ferrari talks wish<\/p>\n

Leclerc crossed the line P7 in Miami and Hamilton<\/a> P8, after Ferrari twice swapped the drivers in pursuit of Mercedes\u2019 Kimi Antonelli, Hamilton left far from impressed with Ferrari\u2019s handling of the situation, which he made quite clear over the radio.<\/p>\n

However, with Hamilton expecting the opportunity to talk everything through with Ferrari following the Miami GP, he claimed that his angsty radio messages were taken \u201cout of context\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end we lost a lot of time overtaking each other. At that moment the car felt alive and the tyre was good and I was clearly quicker,\u201d Hamilton told DAZN F1<\/strong>, having run the alternate strategy Leclerc, going from the hard to medium tyre.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a decision should have been taken sooner. I wasn\u2019t getting there. And in those moments it\u2019s frustrating because what\u2019s our goal: \u2018Race each other, or try to pass the others?\u2019 Then switching position twice made us lose even more time. Still, I don\u2019t know if we would\u2019ve passed the McLaren [sic] because he didn\u2019t have anyone ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll talk about it internally. I was frustrated at the time and now I\u2019m not. That\u2019s racing. People are very sensitive and will take it out of context. And people say far worse things than I do, I just used sarcasm!\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if there were any pre-race talks about the Ferrari team orders, Hamilton confirmed: \u201cNo, we didn\u2019t talk about that because we didn\u2019t know we\u2019d be in this position. We did talk about where we\u2019d swap positions if we needed to, and that\u2019s what we did on track.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll talk internally. We\u2019re not where we want to be and that\u2019s what really matters. We\u2019ll talk, we want to improve, move on, and that\u2019s what we\u2019ll do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The feeling is mutual for Leclerc when it comes to wanting behind-the-scenes discussions at Ferrari, as he stressed that \u201cthe decisions we made as a team weren\u2019t the right ones\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what to say,\u201d Leclerc told DAZN F1. \u201cWe definitely have to talk about it internally. We\u2019ll analyse it. And we have to do better. It\u2019s not that we have to try, we have to do better.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need to talk more with the team than with Lewis. We didn\u2019t do anything wrong. But the decisions we made as a team weren\u2019t the right ones. That\u2019s quite obvious. We have to do better.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not angry with Lewis or anything like that. There was no bad intention, he wanted to maximise the result just like I did. We lost a lot of time today and seeing how close we were to Antonelli, it\u2019s a real shame.\u201d<\/p>\n

More from the Miami Grand Prix<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc49 Miami GP conclusions: McLaren\u2019s rocket ship, unstoppable Piastri and same old Ferrari<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc49 Miami GP driver ratings: Flying Piastri while Ferrari drivers are both frustrated<\/a><\/p>\n

Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur said he can see where Hamilton and Leclerc are coming from with their frustrations, as he praised the duo for obliging with Ferrari\u2019s orders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t fight each other,\u201d said Vasseur on Hamilton and Leclerc when speaking to DAZN F1. \u201cThey weren\u2019t on the same strategy. We had to do a swap. Lewis being behind on the medium and Charles ahead on the hard, Lewis had a better shot at catching Antonelli. But then we swapped back at the end.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can understand the drivers\u2019 frustration because it\u2019s never easy to ask them to do that. We asked them to do it twice and they did it twice. I think they did the job we asked of them and that\u2019s that. They\u2019d been fighting all weekend and we asked them to switch positions\u2026 but it was for the team\u2019s benefit. We wanted to catch Antonelli.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not up to me to do the weekend strategy, but the complicated part of the weekend is that it\u2019s hard to extract the tyre potential. We set the fastest qualifying time on used tyres on both cars. That way you lose two or three tenths which makes the difference for the second row. So we have to do a better job in qualifying.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn race pace we were fine because in the end you depend on the pace of the car ahead. If we had started closer to Verstappen we would\u2019ve fought him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ferrari\u2019s race weekend did feature the highlight of a P3 for Hamilton in the Miami Sprint after an expert call to switch to dry tyres, but with Leclerc having crashed out in the rain on his way to the grid for that mini-race, followed by the underwhelming Grand Prix, Vasseur admitted that Ferrari did not deliver.<\/p>\n

\u201cTough weekend overall,\u201d Vasseur summarised. \u201cYesterday we maximised with Lewis and the P3 in the sprint race. But we had Charles\u2019 crash. And today P7 and P8 wasn\u2019t what we expected.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pace was better at least compared to Red Bull and Mercedes. I don\u2019t want to talk about McLaren because they\u2019re on another planet. But it is what it is. When you start P8 and P12 it\u2019s impossible to fight the front-runners.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read next: Vasseur declares \u2018not the story of the day\u2019 after those Lewis Hamilton photos<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc are both expecting internal talks at Ferrari in the aftermath of the Miami…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5070,997,225,998,12,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-78524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-charles-leclerc","9":"tag-ferrari","10":"tag-home-page","11":"tag-lewis-hamilton","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114459649269043427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78524","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=78524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}