2026 Scuderia Ferrari HP F1 Team

[CRazyLemon]

I expect McLaren to be ahead of us come Miami. Ferrari in effect needs a chassis 0.5 faster than the others just to overcome the PU disadvantage. To get there and maintain will be extremely difficult. ADOU if we're lucky and than only race 10/12, with fingers crossed it is reliable is too much damage championship wise.

Would things have looked better for our result if Leclerc and Hamilton didn't battle, we seemed pretty comfortable 3 and 4 until we started battling each other. Has Ferrari already decided no championship up for grabs, go race.

[Emag]

Lewis hasn't been on it this weekend. You could sort of tell from practice already that he was playing catchup. In any case, I was a bit disappointed with Ferrari's pace in general here. I thought it would be better, but I guess the FP2 "longruns" were a bit deceiving. Particularly on McLaren's side. They were better than I thought they would be.

[AR3-GP]

Lewis hasn't been on it this weekend. You could sort of tell from practice already that he was playing catchup. In any case, I was a bit disappointed with Ferrari's pace in general here. I thought it would be better, but I guess the FP2 "longruns" were a bit deceiving. Particularly on McLaren's side. They were better than I thought they would be.

Ferrari has aero inefficiency and a poor PU. It would always punish them on this efficiency track. They need the macarena wing.

[ScuderiaLeo]

Lewis hasn't been on it this weekend. You could sort of tell from practice already that he was playing catchup. In any case, I was a bit disappointed with Ferrari's pace in general here. I thought it would be better, but I guess the FP2 "longruns" were a bit deceiving. Particularly on McLaren's side. They were better than I thought they would be.

Ferrari has aero inefficiency and a poor PU. It would always punish them on this efficiency track. They need the macarena wing.

I really doubt the macarena wing alone is going to do much. Mercedes will keep developing too, when Ferrari make improvements in pace so will they most likely.

[Luscion]

@Platinum_Zealot !!!! how are you coping ?
LH got a free pitstop, track position and 5 lap fresher tyres, over CL ; before the restart.
If there was any 'equal scenario' to beat his teammate, this was it. And still finished 2 places behind CL.

What's going to be the excuse this time ?
I know its only the 3rd race with this car, to have driver comparison talk, but I think the amount of gloating (where are your posts ? mods deleted ?) from LH fanbase was too much post China, and deserved a reply like this.

Based on how much he complained about it throughout the whole race, seems like deployment issues but i'll wait until his interview to see what he says. he did well to keep russell behind as long as he did

[DJ Downforce]

@Platinum_Zealot !!!! how are you coping ?
LH got a free pitstop, track position and 5 lap fresher tyres, over CL ; before the restart.
If there was any 'equal scenario' to beat his teammate, this was it. And still finished 2 places behind CL.

What's going to be the excuse this time ?
I know its only the 3rd race with this car, to have driver comparison talk, but I think the amount of gloating (where are your posts ? mods deleted ?) from LH fanbase was too much post China, and deserved a reply like this.

Hmmm, most ferrari fans will be pleased with another CL podium whilst Hamilton had his deployment issues!

Are you a Ferrari fan, or here for a reaction?

[AR3-GP]

I really doubt the macarena wing alone is going to do much. Mercedes will keep developing too, when Ferrari make improvements in pace so will they most likely.

4-5km/h is a huge efficiency boost. Ferrari in particular has a less efficient rear wing, so they have more to gain here.

[evered7]

Needs a better engine. Macarena nonsense can wait. It brings its own headache with closure.

Need a lot better engine. Small turbo was supposed to help with starts. Explain McLaren today.

Sack Fred if Mercedes advantage stays true even after engine compression tests.

[deadhead]

Leclerc is a monster on track. Really lucky he drives for Ferrari.

I really can’t imagine what happens if he gets his hands on a dominant machine at some point during his peak years

[Luscion]

[ScuderiaLeo]

Leclerc:

It was nice. The further we progress through the season, the better the teams will get at optimizing their strategy around overtaking, and it'll become increasingly tricky, but I think we'll keep that fun effect there is in the race. But that doesn't change what I think about the current cars in qualifying.

A month off? We need to push flat out. Mercedes were faster, they got a bit of luck with Kimi, but as I've been saying from the start, the championship will come down to development, and that's where we need to be better than the others. So I know there's a ton of work to do, we can't let our heads drop because even if we see that the gaps to Mercedes are big, development this year is moving very quickly. Things can swing one way or the other pretty fast, and we need to be on the right side of it. There's a lot of motivation at the factory and a lot of work, I hope it pays off starting from Miami!

[ScuderiaLeo]

Leclerc on deployment:

I don't understand for me what happened on the first few laps, because it seems like I was down on quite a bit compared to others. But maybe it was just my impression and we were just deploying in different places. Especially in the first few laps it's hard to tell because everything is still getting to the optimal place. After that I had less of a [strange] feeling. We know that Mercedes has a big advantage over us here for the moment, and this is a focus, but we can't forget about the chassis too, the aerodynamics, the tires, and all of this, it all makes a difference. So the engine... we can't change it for now but in the meantime we need to improve absolutely every aspect of the car.

[El_KaPpa]

Interesting how Hamilton’s car seems perfectly fine over and over when Russell is behind, but somehow turns into a brick on the straights once Leclerc is the one applying pressure. Bit odd, no?

[kkrzewniak]

Interesting how Hamilton’s car seems perfectly fine over and over when Russell is behind, but somehow turns into a brick on the straights once Leclerc is the one applying pressure. Bit odd, no?

Why is this thread devolving into Charles vs Lewis non-sens... No team would brick on car to make the other driver look good!

[Xyz22]

Already 23 points behind.
Difficult to keep up like this.