Lewis Hamilton is remaining optimistic about Ferrari’s chances in F1 2025 despite a difficult Miami Grand Prix.

Ferrari ha♌d the fifth-fastest car in Miami, trailing McLaren, Red Bull, Mercedes and Williams.

Hamilton ultimately finished eighth, one place behind Ferrari teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc, as a team orders saga engulfed the team.

Hamilton and Leclerc swapped positions twice as they tried to close in on 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kimi Antonelli ahead.

However, it🍎 didn’t pay off, as neither driver could make the most of the clean air.

Even though it was Ferrari’s worst race of the season in pure performance꧋, Hamilton remained positive.

“Yeah, I had a go𒅌od day in general,” Hamilton told media in Miami, where 𒁃; were present in the paddock.

“Eighth doesn’t really look like that. I feel optimistic for the future. I think this car really does have performance. Something’s holding us﷽ back at the moment, we’ve lost performance since China.

“And it’s there, it’s just we can’t use it. Until we get a fix for that, then this is where we are. In the meantime, we can work on all of the other stuff, p👍rocesses.

“But as I said, I came from the sim last week, I genuinely feel I had a better weekend. To get the third yesterday was a positive. With a better qualifying, I only missed out by half a tenth. Still, for us, we’re battling with t🍒he Williams here, so we’re clearly not as quick as we want to be. Will𓄧iams did a great job this weekend.”

“A better weekend” for Hamilton

While the☂ overa♏ll result was disappointing Hamilton, it was a step forward for the seven-time world champion relative to Jeddah.

In Saudi Arabia, Hamilton qualified over six-tenths off Leclerc, then 30 seconds💝 behind him in the race.

“I think this weeken💛d, whilst we’re not as quick as we want to be, I feel like I had a better weekend in general,” Hamilton added.

“The result might not show it necessarily today. But I was 12th, so very hard to overtake here, cars were obviously so cl🗹ose💧. I got onto the medium tyre, and I felt the car really come alive, and I felt super optimistic in that moment.

“All I could see is the Mercedes up ahead, and I was thinking maybe we can get up to sixth or something. But we lost a lot of time in those laps where Charles and I were battling, and I was clearly quicker in that momen💎t.

“And I didn’t think the decision came quick enough. And for sure, in that time 𝔍you’re like, come on! But yeah. That’s really kind of it. I have no problems with the team or with Charles. I think we could do betꦫter. But the car is where we really need to be. Ultimately we’re fighting for seventh and eighth.”