Max Verstappen has issued a congratulatory message to Lewis Hamilton after the latter bagged his first win for Ferrari on Sunday.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Hamilton returned to the top step of the podium for the first time in almost two years, ending Mercedes’ streak at the start of the campaign.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Mercedes has held a sizeable advantage over the field at the start of the year, but a significant Ferrari upgrade brought it into play in Barcelona.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Hamilton’s victory comes after he endured a dismal opening campaign with Ferrari in 2025, when he often struggled for pace.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
When asked what he thought of Hamilton’s victory, Verstappen told media including RacingNews365: \u201cWell done, congratulations.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s always super special to win, even when you’ve won already so much. To win with Ferrari for the first time, it’s always a special moment.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
For Verstappen, it was a difficult race as Red Bull continued to lack pace to compete at the front of the field.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Dutchman crossed the line in fourth place as he found himself boosted up the order late on due to sudden retirements for Charles Leclerc and Kimi Antonelli.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Dissecting where Red Bull was missing form, Verstappen added: \u201cFor sure a little bit high speed, but that was not even in qualifying the big problem.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s just high energy tracks, high degradation, that’s where we seem to lack still.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has issued a congratulatory message to Lewis Hamilton after the latter bagged his first win for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-737947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}