George Russell claimed his first Formula One sprint race win at the 2026 Chinese Grand Prix, maintaining his perfect start to the season after a closely fought contest that highlighted both Mercedes’ strengths and the evolving competitive order under the 2026 regulations.
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Today Leclerc costed Hamilton a good place in the podium with his stupidity and proved why he should be a number 2. Also Ferrari keep clowning up not doing a pit stop during the SC keeping Hamilton finishing the mediums the whole race.
All this driver ying-yang and yet again we see the team dissapointing on trackside and engine side, there is no way Hamilton has a shot on WDC with Mercedes being this strong. Lets not even go on how they get an ADUO out of this.
So stop this driver infighting, just like Vanja predicted before Hamilton starting to drive for Ferrari, this thread will become a cesspoll and without surprise to anyone, it did. This is a thread for Ferrari fans, and not for "measuring my driver" contest.
I’d rather a wrong decision than indecision, Ferrari has absolutely no idea what they are doing on the pitch wall, complete incompetence. I’m a Fred fan, but he has handled his drivers and the team orders/lack there of with complete idiocy.
Whether a Charles fan or not, the 4 crashes this year really shows he’s not quite there yet as a lead driver, just way too many.
Apart from Leclerc doing what he did, is there noone thats gonna criticise Ferrari for screwing Hamilton leaving him with a medium the whole race and not changing during the VSC?
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What today proved more than anything is that all this talk about "working together for the championship" was and is utterly delusional. Ferrari and Hamilton are not in the championship and they never were. Merc has the better car, the faster driver, and more upgrades coming. Ferrari should just treat this like any other season where they are not competing for the driver's title.
Apart from Leclerc doing what he did, is there noone thats gonna criticise Ferrari for screwing Hamilton leaving him with a medium the whole race and not changing during the VSC?
multiple people have tbf, i dont know what they were thinking....
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Apart from Leclerc doing what he did, is there noone thats gonna criticise Ferrari for screwing Hamilton leaving him with a medium the whole race and not changing during the VSC?
Having a reading comprehension will help you find out.
Obvious stuff aside, the pace was rather disappointing to be honest. Lewis completely dropped off in the end there.
which is why they should have pitted him under vsc, he was complaining about the mediums being terrible well before that but for some reason they decided to leave him out on them
ScudeClerc Ferrari HP Team, GRANDISSIMO execution ! Common be happy, il predestinato is still on the run to win his Teammate Drivers Championship. Forzaaa !
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Why Ferrari likes having sex with their drivers is beyond me. Nuff said.
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Honestly, for me, Hamilton's WDC chances ended today.
If Ferrari is still thinking of prioritizing Hamilton, demoting Leclerc to second driver, it's already too late for that. Any team order will be more about preventing Leclerc from killing Hamilton on the track with his ego and at least keeping the fight for P2 in the WCC, which is even proving difficult with McLaren's improvement.