Lewis Hamilton has spoken of his gratitude and satisfaction after putting together one of his strongest weekends with Ferrari since he joined the team ahead of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
Hamilton<\/a> experienced a difficult first year at the famous Italian marque as he got used to a new environment and new car, going without a Grand Prix podium across 24 events and finishing 86 points behind team mate Charles Leclerc<\/a> in the Drivers\u2019 Championship.<\/p>\n However, 2026 has looked much brighter for the Briton so far, after maximising his first full winter at Ferrari<\/a>\u2019s Maranello factory, making changes to his engineering set-up and adapting well to F1\u2019s all-new era of regulations.<\/p>\n Following his first Grand Prix podium for Ferrari in China, Hamilton appeared to find another level last time out in Canada, where he led the Ferrari charge for the majority of the weekend and raced his way to second position.<\/p>\n Reflecting on the result, which was secured via a late scrap with former title rival Max Verstappen<\/a>, Hamilton said: \u201cI had so much fun out there all weekend \u2013 every single lap. I felt like we started on the right foot, came with the right attitude, and the car really generally felt great.<\/p>\n \u201cTo come to Montreal, a track that I do love, and get to enjoy a Sprint weekend here, which is the first that we\u2019ve had [here], was awesome \u2013 and this is my first second place with the team.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s something I\u2019ve been working so hard [for]\u2026 I can\u2019t even begin to explain how deep I\u2019ve had to dig to be able to get to this point, and the work and moving mountains in the background to enable this sort of performance.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I\u2019m really grateful to the team for continuing to hold me up high and support me weekend in, weekend out, and it\u2019s a really lovely feeling to see them so happy, because they truly deserve it with all the hard work they put in.\u201d<\/p>\n Pushed further on what is making the difference behind the scenes, Hamilton pointed to \u201cthe prep before\u201d the weekend, having avoided using Ferrari\u2019s simulator<\/a>, as well as the efforts of his new-for-2026 Race Engineer, Carlos Santi, and Team Principal Fred Vasseur.<\/p>\n \u201cI chose a different set-up this weekend, just ciphering through the data, working really well with my engineer \u2013 he\u2019s absolutely awesome and I\u2019m really loving working with him,\u201d said the seven-time World Champion.<\/p>\n \u201cMy number two did a fantastic job this weekend, helped me really pull more performance out of the car, getting into a much sweeter place, and I was able to attack all the corners finally.<\/p>\n \u201cAs I said, there\u2019s a lot of changes that I\u2019ve had to ask for, and Fred\u2019s been super supportive, and again, also moving mountains in order to make me comfortable. It\u2019s finally starting to show in my performance, so thank you to the team.\u201d<\/p>\n Hamilton sits fourth in the Drivers\u2019 standings<\/a> after the first five rounds of the campaign, holding 72 points to team mate Leclerc\u2019s 75, while Ferrari are second in the Teams\u2019 battle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has spoken of his gratitude and satisfaction after putting together one of his strongest weekends with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-467419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}