2026 Scuderia Ferrari HP F1 Team

[SuperCNJ]

Lewis looking miserable after the sprint, not surprising, he drove his heart out and yet Leclerc still had too much for him. Brilliant to see him at his best, but Leclerc is an alien.

Well Lewis kinda chewed up his tyres fighting Russell so not sure how he could have ever remained in the front at all.

It was kind of interesting that Leclerc didn't even attempt to fight Russell at all when Hamilton was ahead, but fought Hamilton really hard when Russell was ahead. Had he fought Russell and kept him busy, who knows, Hamilton's tyres might have stayed alive enough to win the sprint. I'm starting to get the feeling Leclerc is much like Russell as Hamilton's teammate in that he's more interested in beating Hamilton than helping Ferrari get a win.

[upsidedowntoast]

Lewis looking miserable after the sprint, not surprising, he drove his heart out and yet Leclerc still had too much for him. Brilliant to see him at his best, but Leclerc is an alien.

Well Lewis kinda chewed up his tyres fighting Russell so not sure how he could have ever remained in the front at all.

It was kind of interesting that Leclerc didn't even attempt to fight Russell at all when Hamilton was ahead, but fought Hamilton really hard when Russell was ahead. Had he fought Russell and kept him busy, who knows, Hamilton's tyres might have stayed alive enough to win the sprint. I'm starting to get the feeling Leclerc is much like Russell as Hamilton's teammate in that he's more interested in beating Hamilton than helping Ferrari get a win.

I'm not sure that's quite the same, as from 2022-2024 Mercedes was never in the title fight at all, and Russell was responsible for every win Mercedes did have (bar the Spa DSQ and the Silverstone mechanical failure, both wins that Lewis inherited). I don't recall any moments where he cost Mercedes a potential win because he and Lewis were too busy fighting each other instead of Max.

I do think Ferrari had a chance to pip Mercedes in this sprint especially after the safety car. Unlike in a longer race where Merc has more time to open up the gap, here the safety car compressed the gap between Russell and the Ferraris from ~4s down to less than 1s at some point with 3 laps to go. Had a Ferrari overtaken Russell after the safety car restart Russell might have struggled to re-overtake him on race pace.

Nonetheless, I don't fault Leclerc; every single guy at the top is like that. Establish the pecking order inside your team before you look outside.

[LM10]

Leclerc after qualifying:

The setup I chose should work better in the race, and tomorrow the goal is to win.

It’s rare to see him say such bullish things.

[Badger]

Lewis looking miserable after the sprint, not surprising, he drove his heart out and yet Leclerc still had too much for him. Brilliant to see him at his best, but Leclerc is an alien.

Well Lewis kinda chewed up his tyres fighting Russell so not sure how he could have ever remained in the front at all.

It was kind of interesting that Leclerc didn't even attempt to fight Russell at all when Hamilton was ahead, but fought Hamilton really hard when Russell was ahead. Had he fought Russell and kept him busy, who knows, Hamilton's tyres might have stayed alive enough to win the sprint. I'm starting to get the feeling Leclerc is much like Russell as Hamilton's teammate in that he's more interested in beating Hamilton than helping Ferrari get a win.

So in your mind Leclerc should have deployed his energy to fight a faster car that he would have lost to in the end, leaving him vulnerable from behind? Seems reasonable, if you only care about Hamilton.

[ScuderiaLeo]

[Fakepivot]

look like it will rain :S , i really hope sf26 can handle rain

[ScuderiaLeo]

I wonder what this is referring to?

[Fakepivot]

man watching these merc overtake so easly make it so unmotivating to watch, ferrari are in a noman land nothing behind them to threaten but merc too good

[matt_b]

Might as well switch to a two stop at this point, just try something different given the gap to behind, only problem is a late SC but given the superior warmup they might actually want that.

[f1Follower]

If FIA is serious to keep Formula 1 alive in this age of Shorts and Tik tok (people want changes quickly not a year late) then they will give ADUO to all the teams leaving Mercedes.

This will spice up the top and the midfield. I don't get teams can change their aero but they cannot change their engines if they under power.

[ScuderiaLeo]

We are nowhere near Merc on race pace either when they begin to use their power. Wow. Look at Russell's lap times right now

[f1Follower]

We are nowhere near Merc on race pace either when they begin to use their power. Wow. Look at Russell's lap times right now

Hence ADUO is needed by all the engine manufacturers not only Ferrari

[ginobeppe]

we lose 5 tenths in the 3rd sector every lap

[Fakepivot]

merc are a sec a lap quicker on close to 40 lap tyre, yea i think its over for this year... i don't know how ferrari can close the gap

[DGP123]

No mans land. P3/4 is the max. Good battle between the two, but it will only hinder the team going forward. Leclerc just too trigger happy today and he paid the price. Better management from Lewis