Ferrari He promised them very happy in Silverstone. The characteristics of the English, smooth and spin -free asphalt, allowed the red team to lower the height of its car, much more than it could do on other tracks, to squeeze its speed waiting for the arrival of the possible solution of its problems, a new rear suspension that should be released shortly. However, everything vanished in the 'qualy', with errors in the final turns of Hamilton y Leclercand in the race, on wet, the thing got worse. Another disaster for the red team.
Lewis Hamilton started 5th, with Charles Leclerc In the 6th position. It seemed that the initial rain and the one that would later fall again, could give an option to those of Maranello to surprise in changing conditions and a crazy race. However, it began to twist from the beginning. Leclerc was the one who personally requested, in the training return, changing dry tires and leaving from the Pit Lane, something that Russell also did. Serious mistake because the track was too wet in the last two curves. Ferrari He could have refused to make that change, but he did not do it and there began the nightmare for Charles.
Meanwhile, for Hamilton, the movie was different. He started with the intermediates, but he met a car with which he suffered more than expected. At the end of the race, he was in the fourth position, with options to press the Sauber of Hülkenberg, who had put himself third with a great strategy. But the Ferrari could not with the Swiss car, something very striking due to the difference in resources between both teams. Nico escaped and managed to get on the drawer, and Hamilton ended a historical streak of 11 consecutive podiums in Silverstone (since 2014) and After 12 races played in this 2025, it is still not uploaded to one of the three positions of the drawer in a Sunday race (He only winning China's Sprint race).
“Each curve was a banding, there was a lack of stability and wasted a lot of time. It is the most difficult car I have piloted in these conditions (in rain), it costs me even to explain it,”said English, without words to what he had lived on his Ferrari on the wet track of Silverstone.
“It has been one of the most difficult races of my career, if not the most difficult of my career. It was hard for me to keep the car on the track from the first to the last round”said Charles Leclerc, who had one day to forget, ending 14th, with several excursions on the grass, regardless of asking for an initial strategy that was the wrong one. He ended up losing his car and hitting Sainz when he was pressured at the end by his former partner, destroying his options of points and leaving out again, something he apologized publicly. “I lacked the rhythm, completely. I was in anyone's land and a certain point lost a second by return,” said Monegasco.
And the Principal team, Vasseurwho on Saturday already pointed to the pilots for not having made a better classification for their errors in Q3 at the wheel of a car that could aspire to more, denied that the car lacked rhythm.
“I don't think the problem was the rhythm. Charles' career ended in the first round, the so -called wine of him. He could have denied me, but at that moment I was sure that it was the right play, not only he, others also tried,” Fred said after another day to forget for Ferrari.
