Wolff: “Is Ferrari scary? No, but it has made a leap forward”

The classification was shortened at Silverstone “The Mercedes will disappear over the race distance“. Lewis Hamilton after Saturday’s qualifying at Silverstone was very pessimistic about Ferrari’s chances in the British GP. According to the seven-time world champion, even if the SF-26s had taken command of the operations after the start it would have been impossible to contain the Mercedes in the long runs. At the start, Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton immediately overtook Andrea Kimi Antonelli who spent much of the first stint getting rid of the Briton. At the end the Italian driver seemed to be heading towards an ‘easy’ pursuit of Charles Leclerc thanks to significantly fresher tyres, but a technical problem put an end to his dream of repeating the success achieved in the Sprint. Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff told Sky that the SF-26s are not yet scary, but the fact that the Mercedes are made of glass is obviously a problem: “Am I afraid of Ferrari? No, we have to look at us, we lost 75 points due to reliability. Ferrari made a leap forward, they thought they were less competitive at Silverstone, but in the first stint of the race the pace was similar to ours.”

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2026-07-09 06:00:00