Among the title of World Champion that Jody Scheckter achieved for Ferrari, in 1979, and the next Alire, by Michael Schumacher (2000), two decades passed. And since the last crown that looks in Maranello, that of Kimi Raikkonen in 2007, 17 years have passed, which will most likely be 18 when this exercise ends, in which the Scuderia You will hardly find answers to put Red Bull in check, much less to McLaren, who travels thrown into the hindering thanks to having the best car of the grill. To try to change the dynamics of recent times, those responsible for the most universal brand in the world of careers precipitated one of the most exceptional operations in history by hiring Lewis Hamilton overlooking this season. What Typhosi They expect from someone whose records underline as the best corridor in history is clear. However, when the first six stops of the calendar have already been played, doubts about what he has done seems to have them the British. Their numbers are disappointing look where they look.
This Sunday (15.00, Dazn), Hamilton will play in Imala his first test in Italian territory in the monkey of Il Cavallino Rampante. He will have it raw, since the 12th will start after being out of the last screen of the timed (Q3). This is his worst starting position since he defends the colors of Ferrari, which was left without representatives in Q3 for the first time this course. The Pole Oscar Piastri took her, while Fernando Alonso will leave the fifth, on the best Saturday to date for Aston Martin; And Carlos Sainz will do it the sixth.
The great surprise of the session was offered by Aston Martin, who seem to have arrived the desired improvements. Both Alonso and the Canadian Lance Stroll managed to advance to Q3, in which the Asturian, with a middle tire used, managed to guarantee a fifth exit square, with the American Eighth. The two -time champion of the world will leave with Sainz, who led the Q2 and that will start sixth.
The session started with a chilling Yuki Tsunoda accident, which miraculously could leave the car, completely destroyed, by its own foot. As soon as eight minutes had elapsed when the Red Bull of the Japanese pilot got on the piano of curve 6, crashed into the protections and turned a bell before finishing in the gravel.
Hamilton, seventh in the general
Although the illusion generated by the incorporation of Hamilton still expires to the emergencies that drag the manufacturer of the red car, the restlessness begins to be noticed. Reasons for this are not missing if we consider that, after fighting until the end for the title of builders with McLaren in 2024, the goal was to opt for double (pilots and builders) in 2025.
The multi -champion appears the seventh in the general table, two positions and 12 points behind Charles Leclerc, his workshop neighbor, which is the fifth. Leclerc’s podium in Yedda and Hamilton’s victory in the sprint China are clearly insufficient if the magnitude of the bet made. The Stevenage pilot marches behind the two Mercedes, the structure with which he won six of his seven World Cups, and with which he generated a chemistry that he can hardly replicate in his new house, a structure that seems to be attacked by congenital internal policy. The most obvious metaphor of this was staged in the last race, in Miami, where Hamilton maintained a strip and loosen on the radio with Riccardo Adami, his track engineer, considering that the strategists had to let him pass to Leclerc to go for Kimi Antonelli. “This is not to work as a team, that is the only thing I am going to say,” said Mercedes’s ex, shortly before Ferrari ordered the change of positions, three laps later. Not being able to catch Antonelli, he was asked to return the square to Leclerc, and his mosqueo became even more audible when Adami informed him of the arrival of Carlos Sainz’s Williams: “Do you want me to also let him pass to him?” In Miami, the 57 seconds that separated Leclerc (seventh), from Piastri, the winner, ratified the abyss between SF-25 and MCL39, bleeding in low speed curves.
Time is the most powerful soothing that exists, and Hamilton landed in Icola with the discourse learned. “I already anticipated that the adaptation would be difficult, because I have already changed equipment before. That’s why I arrived with an open mind. I did not know how difficult it was going to be, but it is the biggest challenge that I have faced, in all possible aspects,” says Hamilton, which circulates to 90 points from Piastri, the leader of the general. “From my previous experience, when you are about 100 points out of the first at this point in the season, and you are facing a car that is dominant (McLaren), you have to think that you will not necessarily fight for the title,” adds Ferrari’s main claim, despite having started his journey together in the most discreet way.
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