2026 Scuderia Ferrari HP F1 Team

[erudite450]

I'm not sure how the team's first front row start of the season is reduced to Hamilton vs Leclerc. The most important thing is that the team now has a good chance of pole in Austria (Leclerc), Silverstone (Leclerc and Hamilton) and Hungary (Hamilton) and I'd be betting on at least one pole in those events.

[woocasz]

This season is set to definitively bury the discussion about Leclerc being a WC contender. Leclerc is a good driver, nothing more. He will never be champion and was never destined to be. With him easily succumbing to pressure, seeing Hamilton consistently ahead of him, he's likely to enter a downward spiral, trying his best to be ahead of Lewis and making mistake after mistake.

The good thing for Ferrari this season is that Hamilton is back to his prime, achieving good results, keeping the car clear of the barriers and getting good results. If Leclerc continues with this nonsense and throwing away important points, he'll have to sit down for an uncomfortable conversation.

Charles crashes out today and suddenly Hamilton fans is quick to jump in and praise Hamilton while putting Charles down!

The definition of outperforming someone is being quicker overall in races and in qualifying. If Leclerc is hitting the wall that still does not mean Hamilton has outperformed him on performance at all.

Without problems with brakes Leclerc would be leading Hamilton by quite big margin by now, so clearly the talk about Hamilton already outperforming Charles is trolling big time.

To be it seems like Hamilton fans are just happy to see him performing well again after not getting on with the cars for a few years.

Charles can be fast over a single lap and even at times in the races, but has a horrible win and pole conversion rate. His number of mistakes are unacceptable too.

177 starts, 27 poles and only 8 wins. There is strong evidence to suggest he is not WDC material.

Fortunately (or perhaps unfortunately) for you, every team has two drivers.

I don’t want to look up the statistics, but Charles has beaten all his previous team-mates in this regard! Vettel, the four-time world champion, in his first season at Ferrari, and the seven-time world champion, last season.

If you don’t have a car that’s fast enough, you can’t win the championship – everyone who follows the sport knows that.

as for the win to pole conversion, this shows just how fast Charles is as a driver; despite not having the fastest car, he was able to secure pole position.

[j_ste]

Got to stay calm, though. Tomorrow will be a massive struggle but today should give them some justified hope that this season could be turned around.

If…IF, the PU improvement for Austria is just that. Oh brother.

In fred we trust

[Artur Craft]

Let's review race results:

• Australia: Hamilton had much better pace.

• China: Hamilton had better pace.

• Japan: Leclerc had much better pace, particularly on the straights. Take it for what it's worth.

• Miami: Leclerc had much better pace but then dropped it. Had Hamilton not had damage from Colapinto, he'd have had an even better result differential.

• Canada: Hamilton had much, much better pace.

• Monaco: Only qualifying matters; Hamilton was faster. I contend that Leclerc's knife's edge effort was the only reason

for the fastest Q1, but he was likely to bin and he did.

• Spain: He binned it again while Hamilton was on course to set a purple in sector 1.

So, when Hamilton had equal or slightly better pace on the race, you claim he had "much better" pace. When Leclerc destroyed him, you claim Hamilton had an engine problem or whatever...

These last years have been horrible to you, I imagine. Leclerc and Russell beaten Hamilton by big margins most of the time and on the very few times Hamilton was quicker, it was by very small margins. Very devastating for people who pushed narratives about him when he had a car several seconds faster than the second one and mediocre team mates giving him big trouble, one of which is getting destroyed by Verstappen former team mate, who was said to be the slowest of the grid by the very same people who pushed thoses "hype" narratives about the most succesful driver ever

[Juzh]

Leclerc be like

[El_KaPpa]

Get in there, Lewis!! You are the Man. NEVER discount an 8-time WDC ever. This is the type of pressure he brings to the table. Cope with it or be ready to find excuses.

[matt_b]

Dare I say Compression Ratio? or a phenomenal upgrade package by the Scuderia? or a combination of both? because without going a bit too deep into turn one Lewis is on Pole today which crazy to imagine given the gaps prior to Monaco

[rifrafs2kees]

Let's review race results:

• Australia: Hamilton had much better pace.

• China: Hamilton had better pace.

• Japan: Leclerc had much better pace, particularly on the straights. Take it for what it's worth.

• Miami: Leclerc had much better pace but then dropped it. Had Hamilton not had damage from Colapinto, he'd have had an even better result differential.

• Canada: Hamilton had much, much better pace.

• Monaco: Only qualifying matters; Hamilton was faster. I contend that Leclerc's knife's edge effort was the only reason

for the fastest Q1, but he was likely to bin and he did.

• Spain: He binned it again while Hamilton was on course to set a purple in sector 1.

So, when Hamilton had equal or slightly better pace on the race, you claim he had "much better" pace. When Leclerc destroyed him, you claim Hamilton had an engine problem or whatever...

These last years have been horrible to you, I imagine. Leclerc and Russell beaten Hamilton by big margins most of the time and on the very few times Hamilton was quicker, it was by very small margins. Very devastating for people who pushed narratives about him when he had a car several seconds faster than the second one and mediocre team mates giving him big trouble, one of which is getting destroyed by Verstappen former team mate, who was said to be the slowest of the grid by the very same people who pushed thoses "hype" narratives about the most succesful driver ever

Dude, it's not about Hamilton. Leclerc isn't doing well!!!!.

[Luscion]

Could it be that Ferrari are now unleashing its full power, when they got the ADUO outcome they desired to get? I cannot believe this car to be is so fast on the straight(and THE fastest through corners) lacking 25hp.

Probably just the upgrades imo. it was a big package after all, sidepods, front wing, floor and FTM.

[RonMexico]

Curious how the trolling follows one particular driver around on this forum.

[Gillian]

Let's review race results:

• Australia: Hamilton had much better pace.

• China: Hamilton had better pace.

• Japan: Leclerc had much better pace, particularly on the straights. Take it for what it's worth.

• Miami: Leclerc had much better pace but then dropped it. Had Hamilton not had damage from Colapinto, he'd have had an even better result differential.

• Canada: Hamilton had much, much better pace.

• Monaco: Only qualifying matters; Hamilton was faster. I contend that Leclerc's knife's edge effort was the only reason

for the fastest Q1, but he was likely to bin and he did.

• Spain: He binned it again while Hamilton was on course to set a purple in sector 1.

So, when Hamilton had equal or slightly better pace on the race, you claim he had "much better" pace. When Leclerc destroyed him, you claim Hamilton had an engine problem or whatever...

These last years have been horrible to you, I imagine. Leclerc and Russell beaten Hamilton by big margins most of the time and on the very few times Hamilton was quicker, it was by very small margins. Very devastating for people who pushed narratives about him when he had a car several seconds faster than the second one and mediocre team mates giving him big trouble, one of which is getting destroyed by Verstappen former team mate, who was said to be the slowest of the grid by the very same people who pushed thoses "hype" narratives about the most succesful driver ever

This is overlooked to the extend you start to wonder if it is deliberate

[Luscion]

Fred -

- "Charles is obviously frustrated, but he pushed a bit too hard into Turn 4. He absolutely wasn't off the pace from the start of the weekend; he was competitive in every session. Unfortunately, he arrived 5 to 6 km/h faster than on the previous lap, and that's what caused the crash."

- "I think Lewis is improving; he's getting better at the same rate as the car and the team. Over these last few weekends, he's delivered important results, including a second place in last Sunday's race, which is his best result with us, and he arrived in Barcelona with great confidence in the car and the team. Plus, he knew we were coming here with a solid package of updates for the car, and he managed to find the right rhythm despite missing the first free practice session. You can see he has more confidence in himself and is getting good results."

- "I don't spend the weekend speculating about qualifying. I just try to do the best job possible throughout the weekend and get the maximum out of the car. In qualifying, there are two or three cars within a tenth and a half. It's impossible to make predictions. It's very important to progress session by session. Today, we managed to improve between Q1 and Q3, and that's certainly what was the main factor in our result."

- "Our race pace was good yesterday, but tomorrow it'll be a tough race. It'll be over 50 degrees on the track, and everything, or nearly everything, will depend on tire management. We'll have to preserve our tires and manage our strategy well. Yesterday, we saw that we had good pace, but tire degradation was very high. That was the case for us as well as for our rivals. So today, we've seen that the gaps between the cars are very tight. But degradation will play an important role in the gaps tomorrow."

- "I think this Ferrari is capable of winning races, and when you start on the front row, you always have to aim for the win. We know the competition will be fierce, because the other teams will bring updates too, but we have to seize this opportunity well, focus on what we're doing, make the most of our package, and try to improve the chassis and the engine as soon as we can start exploiting the ADUO."

[Mr5in1]

This page has descended into the wrong focus pitting each driver agent each other.

The positive note is the car looks great, I'm in Barcelona and did not expect to be this close to Mercedes in qualy.

Yes Charles binned it but he was pushing, the pace was there, he'll just need to move on head down.

The long run pace traces showed leclerc being fastest, pinning hopes this could translate in a tilt for the win with Lewis's P2 efforts.

Let's see, Forza Ferrari

[bluechris]

Guys noone saw the post race interview from Charles? He said it crystal clear, he went with more speed in T4, the car went to the dirty side and game over. He said also he was embarrassed of this. No brakes or anything, clearly on him.

[Artur Craft]

Dude, it's not about Hamilton. Leclerc isn't doing well!!!!.

Hamilton is doing fine, better than before, obviously. If that is the reason for Leclerc´s mistakes, then I can´t know for sure but further GPs will give better understanding about that.

This is overlooked to the extend you start to wonder if it is deliberate

What I said is very objective and clear. People said Bottas was one of the best drivers ever over one lap to support narratives about Hamilton. Likewise, Perez was said to be mega slow to support narratives about Verstappen. Now we´re seeing Perez being speculated to go to a better team than Cadilac while Bottas is on the verge of ending his F1 carreer because he is just too slow. Maybe you have not been following what is being said on the media about Caddie drivers....

I know Perez and Bottas are off topic here but it does make one think that(both) Ferrari´s drivers might not be as good as Mercedes´, Red Bull´s and Mclaren´s, not just lacking on the engine side.(just my impression anyway)