{"id":163347,"date":"2025-09-23T08:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163347\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T08:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:26:09","slug":"lewis-hamilton-issues-ferrari-progress-update-after-disappointing-azerbaijan-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163347\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton issues Ferrari progress update after “disappointing” Azerbaijan GP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton<\/a> has provided an update on his adjustment progress at Ferrari<\/a> after joining the team at the beginning of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The seven-time champion joined the Maranello outfit after a 12-year stint with the Mercedes<\/a> Formula 1 team and an 18-year stint working with Mercedes power units. While Hamilton secured the sprint race win in China, he has yet to stand on the podium for a grand prix and has discussed his struggles in adapting to the team and the new power unit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ferrari team chief Fred Vasseur previously admitted that both he and Hamilton may have underestimated<\/a> the difficulties that would come with the change for the British driver. Hamilton has since confirmed that he is still not 100% confident with the brakes but he feels that he is progressing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I think there\u2019s still some improvements to make in terms of how aggressive I can be. The car has been quite snappy, so still not 100% confident under braking when I\u2019m attacking on the brakes. In the last race, I was, but in this race, didn\u2019t feel it so much with the setup that we ended up having,” Hamilton explained after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s kind of crazy, because we\u2019ve been progressing yet we\u2019ve not had results, really in the last few races. But there\u2019s not like no progress so I think we\u2019re able to do a good weekend and a good result.”<\/p>\n

Hamilton finished the race at the Baku City Circuit in eighth position after starting from 12th, which was a disappointing end to what had started as a positive weekend for the 40-year-old.<\/p>\n

\"Lewis <\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari<\/p>\n

Photo by: Sam Bloxham \/ LAT Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Both Hamilton and his team-mate Charles Leclerc<\/a> looked strong during the second practice session, topping the timesheets with a Ferrari 1-2, but after a crash for Leclerc in qualifying and a Q2 exit for Hamilton, the team walked away with an eighth and ninth-place finish.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, it was a disappointing result, as I mentioned yesterday, to feeling so optimistic,” he explained to Sky Sports F1. “I think through practice after P2, honestly, I felt so good in the car and I think ultimately in the wrong direction with the car.\u00a0But our ultimate pace in the race was just not on par with the guys up ahead of us.<\/p>\n

“But qualifying clearly is so important if you look at where the Williams<\/a> was.\u00a0They did a great job,\u00a0congratulations\u00a0to them.\u00a0What an amazing result for us to give everything.<\/p>\n

“I mean I’m happy I moved forwards from 12th but couldn’t really care less for that position.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has provided an update on his adjustment progress at Ferrari after joining the team at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[77894,49,48,578,80578,930,576,577,932,84611,82,4962],"class_list":["post-163347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-azerbaijan-gp","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-f1-azerbaijan-grand-prix-2025","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-lewis-hamilton-issues-ferrari-progress-update-after-disappointing-azerbaijan-gp","tag-sports","tag-trendingteam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}