‘More to come’ from Ferrari, says Hamilton

After coming back from 12th place on the grid to finish fourth in the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton asserts that Ferrari has “more to come” from them.

The tifosi, a seven-time champion, described the race as “a highlight of the year so far” and claimed there were “lots of positives to take” from it.

He finished ahead of his team-mate Charles Leclerc, who finished sixth for the first time this year.

The team did a fantastic job of strategy and pit stops, and the setup was fantastic. The car felt fantastic.

We put a lot of pressure on ourselves because of our ongoing struggles with the car this year, and especially because of our qualifying.

“I can’t recall the last time I participated in a race like that as it progressed.” There was undoubtedly one last year, but this one was unique because I drove a red car. It was a really wonderful feeling to finally feel that way about the car.

Hamilton began on the hard tyre, ran long, and was then assisted by two safety cars before moving on. For the final restart, he moved up to seventh place and started in his final position.

When I got on the medium tyres and a great call at the end, Hamilton said, “Bit by bit strategy started to work out and the car really came alive.”

The 40-year-old British driver said that this was his first time racing in Italy.

He said, “It was just really very reminiscent of when I was growing up watching it sitting at home on my couch, having a bacon sandwich, watching Michael Schumacher here racing with Ferrari and seeing the connection.”

“It was quite an incredible feeling to realize that I’m now connected to them in one of the two Ferraris.” It’s unbelievable how passionate I am about it.

Hamilton’s best qualifying result of the year so far in a grand prix came despite Ferrari’s worst qualifying result of the year, with Leclerc and Hamilton starting 11th and 11th.

Hamilton was considering the famed race on the streets of the principality ahead of F1’s scheduled Monaco weekend.

“Getting the tires to work in one lap will still be a question.” I believe we could be in a good position if that is resolved next week, he said.

Leclerc, who won in Monaco last year, fears that a “very difficult weekend” will result from the Ferrari’s weakness in slow-speed corners.

He claimed that “Monaco is exposing quite a few weaknesses of our car.”

Leclerc continued, “I don’t believe the situation we are in is a silver bullet.” Simply put, we need to work and try to understand where this qualifying issue originates. The Saturdays are what are currently causing us to slow down.

It’s obvious that we are attempting to get the most out of the Saturday car, according to team principal Frederic Vasseur. What we didn’t improve on the qualifying set-up the previous two weekends.