Hamilton, this Silverstone is uphill: “The gap could be double. Ferrari great car, but with this speed gap…”

Hamilton, the king of Silverstone If Silverstone is the history of F1, Lewis Hamilton is the history of Silverstone. Here the seven-time world champion wrote indelible pages of his career, triumphing on nine occasions (no one has ever won so much on a single circuit), obtaining seven pole positions and 15 podiums. Even in an unfortunate year like 2025, Hamilton tied his best result of the season here with fourth place behind the McLarens and Nico Hülkenberg. Now #44 arrives at the home meeting with a different awareness of strength also at the level of internal hierarchies. However, we need to erase Austria’s bad weekend and dust off the glories of Montmeló, on a track that has characteristics of both circuits. Hamilton, however, highlights the similarities with the Red Bull Ring more. Hamilton’s words “We had some great performances before Austria, but we were losing four tenths a lap on the straight in the race, and then it becomes difficult to make up that gap in the corners. We have a great car, I think. Fundamentally we have this problem and we will try to work to make the most of what we have, trying to get the best possible results and score as many points as we can, until we can close that gap”, this was Hamilton’s comment in the press conference. “It’s not that I don’t have confidence ahead of this weekend, but there are some long straights here: I think it’s an unprecedented weekend in terms of power delivery. In the drivers’ chat we were all talking about how much we will miss power on this track too. Even in battery management, for a large part of the lap it will be off in terms of recovering power; this could be a problem for us, because the gap could be twice as big as normal.” “My engineers have asked me many times what I am doing here with the car. I hope I have directed them on the right path. Tomorrow there will only be one free practice session, it will certainly be a challenge from start to finish. But I don’t think too much about the tenth victory here, I will try to perform in the best possible way throughout the weekend, trying to absorb in the best way the energy that all the fans transmit to us here. I hope that here, at home, the fans will help me close that gap compared to those in front of us”, concluded the seven times world champion. “It’s my 20th year here so it’s phenomenal when I come back here. I hear we’re probably going to have the biggest crowd we’ve ever had, it’s a real privilege for us Brits to be here and represent our country.”

Automobile Magazine – Formula1 English, News

2026-07-02 13:32:00