18/05/2025 09:10
Lewis Hamilton believes Ferrari must follow Red Bull and McLaren in
delivering performance from its upgrades, using Max Verstappen as
an example. Both Hamilton and team-mate Charles Leclerc were dumped
in Q2 at Imola, a humiliating double exit for Ferrari at its home
race, with the SF-25 proving to be a tricky machine to extract
performance from. Hamilton felt that the race from 12th could be a
struggle in the "DRS train" but felt that the underlying pace of
the Ferrari was strong, as he explained, where McLaren and Red Bull
held a significant advantage. "This is not a great circuit to race
on; it is great to drive a single lap, but overtaking, you get
stuck in a DRS train, and there will not be a lot of movement.
"Strategy-wise, we'll try and pick them off, and I feel like the
race pace could be good, but we have made progress this weekend,
but it is still not where it needs to be. "We need more upgrades;
we've got to start adding performance. I mean, look at Max's rear,
it just doesn't move, he's doing like 6-10kph more than us at Turn
2, and we can't match that. "It is the same with McLaren, so we've
just got to keep pushing, keep applying pressure, and I believe the
guys can find some performance."
