"I feel pain for all the team from catering to marketing," claims Hamilton after Ferrari's dismal weekend

On the back of a disappointing weekend at the Singapore Grand Prix, Ferrari's seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton admitted that he can feel "the pain for all the team from catering to marketing" after the Scuderia failed to fight for the podium places.

Ferrari endured a difficult weekend last time out at Singapore. The SF25 lacked speed in qualifying which saw Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc secure only the sixth and seventh spot on the grid.

The Monegasque got the better start on Sunday and found himself running fifth as he was able to overtake his team-mate and the Mercedes of Andrea Kimi Antonelli on the opening lap.

However, Leclerc encountered technical issues and had to look after his brakes from the early stages of the race. As a result of his difficulties, he lost out to the Italian as he was forced to lift and coast in the majority of the race.

Hamilton spent the majority of the Singapore Grand Prix in P7. As he had a free pit stop window, he pitted for a second time to take a fresh set of softs. The seven-time world champion was able to eat up the ground to the back of his team mate on fresh rubber.

The Briton was let through to chase down his Mercedes replacement which he did, only to lose his brakes late on. He allowed Leclerc back through and lost nearly 40 seconds to Alonso over the last couple of laps.

However, while he was eager to nurse his brake issues on the final laps, he exceeded the track limits on four occasions for which he received a five-second penalty. It meant the Leclerc finished sixth while Hamilton left the Marina Bay Circuit with an eighth-place finish.

"It has been a challenging couple of days but there were definitely some positives to take. I’ve felt good in the car all weekend and we had a strong final third of the race," Hamilton added.

"The Softs gave us great attacking pace and meant I could close down a big gap to the cars ahead, but unfortunately a brake issue cost us the overtake and the chance to score more points.

"We had the potential to be further ahead this weekend, starting from qualifying, so the focus now is on maximising what we have going into Austin and executing cleanly to bring home as many points as possible."

Pressed on to reflect on the current atmosphere at Ferrari, Hamilton admitted that he can "feel the pain" in every department of the Scuderia, considering the fact that the SF25 could not offer enough speed over the last races to take on the fight against McLaren, Mercedes and Red Bull.

"I feel pain for all the team from catering to marketing, to the guys in the garage and engineers who show up every weekend, and they really do give absolutely everything but the car we have is unfortunately not of the level of the guys ahead of us," he said.

"Particularly as they've had some upgrades and we can't match them. We're on a knife-edge trying to get as close as we can," the Briton concluded.