{"id":40876,"date":"2025-08-02T03:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40876\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T03:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:08:08","slug":"lewis-hamilton-confirms-key-ferrari-investigation-after-big-big-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40876\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton confirms key Ferrari investigation after ‘big, big struggle’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite trying two different approaches to uncover pace, Lewis Hamilton says that Hungary is becoming a \u201cbig, big struggle\u201d for him.<\/p>\n

The eight-time winner at the circuit even doubts that a second-row start would be possible for him this weekend.<\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton faces Hungarian Grand Prix performance struggle<\/p>\n

Though he managed to set the sixth-quickest time in Free Practice 2 ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix, Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton<\/a> isn\u2019t confident that he\u2019ll be able to find any pace rivaling that of his Scuderia Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday was not a good day for me,\u201d Hamilton concluded to media after the session.<\/p>\n

\u201cBig, big struggle with the balance of the car and yeah, a lot different to the previous years I\u2019ve been here.\u201d<\/p>\n

With eight victories at the Hungaroring, Lewis Hamilton is the winningest driver in the track\u2019s history, with his first victory coming in 2007 and his most recent in 2020. But barring a miracle \u2014 and a major improvement in his SF-25 \u2014 he won\u2019t be adding to that tally this weekend.<\/p>\n

More tech updates from Formula 1:<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc49\u00a0How Williams are looking to stay one step ahead with new FW47 updates<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc49\u00a0Have recent updates stunted Mercedes\u2019 W16 progress?<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried two different things,\u201d Hamilton said when pressed to identify more specifically the problems he\u2019s having.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried rectifying some of the balance problems we had in P1. We changed the car for P2, and it\u2019s just inconsistent, very, very inconsistent balance from corner to corner.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you can\u2019t say it\u2019s just understeer. You can\u2019t just say it\u2019s oversteer. It\u2019s just far from being on rails and very, very out of balance.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think it\u2019s probably something to do with maybe tyre temperatures or something.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019re gonna try and figure that out for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, teammate Charles Leclerc ended both practice sessions in P3, the only driver with even a minute chance of challenging McLaren for a win. But Hamilton isn\u2019t confident he\u2019ll be able to do the same come qualifying.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u00a0mean, Charles has been quick today,\u201d Hamilton said when asked if he thought a second-row start was possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, he\u2019s been generally happy with the car. For me, I\u2019m quite far off, so I highly, highly doubt it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Leclerc himself expressed more confidence, he\u2019s still thinks \u201cit\u2019s going to be very tough\u201d to outqualify McLaren.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey seem to be a step forward,\u201d Leclerc explained.<\/p>\n

But in dramatic contrast to his teammate, he did continue, \u201cBut never say never. I mean, the feeling with the car has been pretty positive so far. We\u2019ve got to do some steps more in the right direction for tomorrow, but, but for now, the feeling is good.\u201d<\/p>\n

He admitted that Ferrari seems to be the best-placed team when it comes to being able to challenge the McLarens \u2014 \u201cbehind McLaren and ahead of the rest,\u201d he described it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope we can do something better than P3,\u201d Leclerc concluded.<\/p>\n

Yet again, it appears that the Hungarian Grand Prix will be a tale of two vastly different Ferraris.<\/p>\n

Read next:\u00a0FIA confirm Red Bull punishment after Max Verstappen investigation triggers investigation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite trying two different approaches to uncover pace, Lewis Hamilton says that Hungary is becoming a \u201cbig, big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,930,576,577,1613,27858,932,44,82,4390],"class_list":["post-40876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-home-page","tag-hungarian-grand-prix","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40876","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=40876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}