Before Silverstone, Leclerc had opened up to team orders

Can Ferrari dream of the world championship? Ferrari’s recent sprint, capable of winning two of the last three races on the calendar – Barcelona with Hamilton and Silverstone with Leclerc – has put the topic of a possible world championship comeback for the Prancing Horse on the discussion table. Hypothesis which could receive a further boost from the introduction of the second power unit with the ADUO ‘vitamins’. At Ferrari, however, they fly low and no proclamations are made because there is the awareness that the battleship Mercedes, although limping due to some reliability problems, will be difficult to beat. Is there a theme of team orders? PositionDriverScuderiaPoints1Andrea Kimi AntonelliMercedes1792George RussellMercedes1543Lewis HamiltonFerrari1474Charles LeclercFerrari108 After the Silverstone round, the first of the Ferrari drivers in the drivers’ world championship – namely Lewis Hamilton – shortened his gap from the top of the championship to -32, after the zero achieved by Andrea Kimi Antonelli.
A decidedly reasonable gap, considering Mercedes’ superiority at the start of the season.
Leclerc won in Great Britain, but is -71 behind the leader and 39 points away from Hamilton.
Some observers, such as Rob Smedley, have advised Ferrari and Frederic Vasseur to bet all their chances on Hamilton, to maximize every single point available, perhaps hoping for a bitter internal battle between Antonelli and Russell. Those words from Leclerc before Silverstone In the statements reported by Motorsport Week, on Thursday at Silverstone Charles Leclerc had in fact opened up to the possibility of helping Lewis Hamilton: “We’ll see how it goes at the end of the season. Regardless of the situation I find myself in, obviously the team comes first. But for now I don’t want to think about it. Now I have to think about my performances and I’ll focus on this. Then we’ll see what to do later.”
Leclerc’s victory at Silverstone certainly made these words from the Monegasque particularly interesting. Will he still think this way? Leclerc denied changes in the Ferrari garage Leclerc then spoke in depth about Hamilton’s recovery in 2026: “I don’t think there has been a particular change in the garage. Performance can fluctuate: last year it went one way and this year it’s going another. As a driver, you have to focus only on your part. Lewis is more comfortable with the team. The first year you arrive at a new team, you don’t know who to turn to for every question. Now that’s no longer the case, he knows most of people and is as comfortable as I am. We are improving and making changes in terms of process, but I wouldn’t say we have changed our approach.”

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2026-07-12 19:00:00