{"id":778530,"date":"2026-07-03T22:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778530\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T22:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:17:11","slug":"friday-debrief-do-ferrari-really-have-the-pace-to-fight-for-victory-over-the-british-grand-prix-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778530\/","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY DEBRIEF: Do Ferrari really have the pace to fight for victory over the British Grand Prix weekend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Lewis Hamilton seemed as surprised as everyone else after taking a sensational pole position for Saturday&#8217;s Sprint at the British Grand Prix to raise the hopes of his home crowd that maybe, just maybe, he might be victorious this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Has Ferrari really got the pace to fight for Sprint and Grand Prix victory?<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Well, if you&#8217;d asked the Italian team that very question heading into this weekend, they would have told you they were expecting Silverstone to be a tricky one to master for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">As <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiaGFtaWx0b25fYWRtaXR0ZWRfYWZ0ZXJfc3ByaW50X3F1YWxpZnlpbmdfbGlua19jbGlja2VkIiwiY2xpY2tUZXh0Ijp0cnVlLCJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZm9ybXVsYTEuY29tL2VuL2xhdGVzdC9hcnRpY2xlL2hhbWlsdG9uLXNuYXRjaGVzLXBvbGUtcG9zaXRpb24taW4tYnJpdGlzaC1ncmFuZC1wcml4LXNwcmludC1xdWFsaWZ5aW5nLWZyb20tYW50b25lbGxpLWFuZC12ZXJzdGFwcGVuLjUycVY3TTF5STlLV2dXb3dybENZbEciLCJwYXRoVHlwZSI6ImludGVybmFsIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/hamilton-snatches-pole-position-in-british-grand-prix-sprint-qualifying-from-antonelli-and-verstappen.52qV7M1yI9KWgWowrlCYlG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamilton admitted after Sprint Qualifying<\/a>: &#8220;We didn\u2019t expect coming to Silverstone that we\u2019d be competing for the front row, we really, really didn\u2019t, so this is an amazing surprise. I\u2019m ecstatic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">But from the first laps in the one and only practice session, <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiZmVycmFyaV9saW5rX2NsaWNrZWQiLCJjbGlja1RleHQiOnRydWUsInBhdGgiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mb3JtdWxhMS5jb20vZW4vdGVhbXMvZmVycmFyaSIsInBhdGhUeXBlIjoiaW50ZXJuYWwifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/teams\/ferrari\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari<\/a> \u2013 and in particular Hamilton \u2013 looked quick. Their strength in the low-speed turns this year paid dividends at Silverstone, as they enjoyed an advantage of 0.3s over Red Bull, 0.4s over Mercedes and more than half a second over McLaren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton seemed as surprised as everyone else after taking a sensational pole position for Saturday&#8217;s Sprint at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-778530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778530","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=778530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}