Lewis Hamilton confirms upgrade as he addresses Ferrari car concerns

Lewis Hamilton addresses rumours🌞 about Ferrari's 2🌸025 F1 car having a fundamental design flaw.

Lewis Hamilton arrives in the Bahrain paddock on Thursday
Lewis Hamilton arrives in the Bahrain paddock on Thursday

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton confirmed Ferrari are bringing an upgrade at the Bahrain Grand Prix but insists he feels “no huge issues” with their F1 car.

Ferrari’s torrid start to the 2025 sea🐭son has led to speculation that the team are battling a fundamental desܫign flaw with their SF25 car, which has underperformed across the opening three races.

A lack of competitiveness in Australia - where 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc and Hamilton could only 🧸finish eighth and 1♚0th - was followed by a double disqualification at the Chinese Grand Prix.

Hamilton’s disqualification was due to excessive plank wear, which only added fuel to early suggestions that Ferrari are facing a ride height problem which may also explain their fundamental p💧erf▨ormance deficit.

There is widely held belief in the F1 paddock that Ferrari are unable to run their car as low as they want,ꦆ costing them vital downforce and lap time.

Ferrari have rem𓆏ained tight-lipped about the rumours but are bringing what is seen as being a key floor upgrade to Bahrain in a bid to save their se🎶ason.

Speaking ahead of the weekend on ﷽Thursday, the seven-time world champion revealed Ferrari have indeed brought an upgrade package as expected, though he downplayed concerns about his car.

“We’ve got an upgrade this weekend so I’m excited we’re going to hopefully have💙 a bit more downforce,” Hamilton told Sky Sports F1.

🐻“I’m not really feeling a huge amount of issues just we lack overall performance at the moment pace wise, which we will hopefully take a step this weekend.

“Onꦐ my side, it’s rear-🍬end a little bit [I’m struggling with] and that’s about it.”

Charles Leclerc: Ferrari three-tenths behind McLaren

Leclerc scored Ferrari’s best result in a g🌺rand prix this season by💜 finishing a distant fourth in Japan last time out.

The Monegasque hopes the new parts will lift Ferrari’s performance, though he concedes it♔ won’t be enough to close the estimated three-tenth gap to F1 pacesetters McLaren.

“We’ve got some❀ new bits on the car coming which I hope will꧒ help us to close that gap a little bit.

ಌ“Whether it will be enough to close the complete gap, I don’t think so. I don’t think there is that in what we are bringing here.

“But I hope ඣit will help us to at least be c🀅loser. It’s still quite a significant step.

“In Suzuka I think this was the gap that there i🐻s between McLaren and ourselves, which is three-tenths.

“We need to work very hard in order tꦓo catch that and that’s what we are doing and I’m confident we can close that gap.

“Again, what we are bringing here, I don’t think will be enough, but hopefully short-term we will have other things which will help us to🗹 b✃e closer.”

Ferrari head🦩 into this weekend fourth in the constructors’ championship and 76 points behind McLaren. 

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