Hamilton: “We don’t know why we were so competitive in Barcelona”

Ferrari maintains balance It must be recognized that the statements from Ferrari and Lewis Hamilton after the victory in Barcelona two weeks ago have always been based on the search for balance.
Ever since he set foot in Maranello, Frederic Vasseur has always supported the importance of not getting excited about successes and not letting himself get depressed in difficult moments. The clear example of what the French manager preached was seen between the victory in Barcelona and the disappointing performance at the Red Bull Ring. “Now we are not world champions,” Vasseur had underlined in Catalonia. “We weren’t champions before and we’re not stupid now,” the team principal warned after Austria.
And it is also essential to keep Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc on the same wavelength, who have often shown themselves to be rather moody drivers with ups and downs. Hamilton and the bath of reality Lewis Hamilton’s statements reported by the Times are interesting – and perhaps even worrying -: “I think Austria was a return to reality. We don’t know why we were so competitive on Sunday in Barcelona. It’s a track where I’m very strong and I chose a strategy that from my experience I knew could work.” In short, a Ferrari that has no idea why it triumphed in Catalonia is not exactly a good thing. Hamilton then added: “Today we came back to reality: we still have a good car but we are behind Mercedes in terms of pace. That doesn’t mean we can’t close the gap, but that one win doesn’t mean we will always beat them. We simply have to continue to improve the performance of the car, especially in terms of power.”

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2026-06-29 15:36:00