Silverstone background: in the Thursday meeting Hamilton and Leclerc surprised Vasseur

Negative prospects “In Austria we had a problem with the engine and here at Silverstone we will have the same power unit and therefore I don’t expect that by magic we will be in the lead”, team principal Frederic Vasseur had explained frankly on Friday of the British Grand Prix.
And instead the predictions were completely reversed, with Lewis Hamilton taking the Sprint pole and finishing 2nd in the Sprint and Charles Leclerc capable of winning Sunday’s race. A result that first took Ferrari itself by surprise. It is no coincidence that Hamilton explained after the Sprint that the engineers “only had questions and no answers” after the good result and Leclerc added after the grand prix that the team “will have to understand why it went so fast compared to forecasts”. Vasseur background: the Thursday meeting with Hamilton and Leclerc Predictions revealed by Leclerc, who referred to the Thursday briefing: “I remember the meeting, we thought we were five or six tenths behind, at least”, identical version from Hamilton: “The guys were talking about a gap of six, seven tenths on the straight”. And Frederic Vasseur, Ferrari team principal, also returned to that meeting on Canal+. A decidedly interesting note, which makes it clear how Hamilton and Leclerc are pushing the team to give their all, even against all odds: “We arrived here with our ears a little low, a little demoralized. And in the end we ended up with both drivers on the podium. I’m very happy for them because they gave their all right from the start. They never gave up and I was really happy with the attitude they showed during the briefing on Thursday, when we knew it would be tough. Despite everything, they tried to perfect the details, trying to understand how to gain hundredths of a second.

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2026-07-08 18:34:00