Lewis Hamilton has called on Ferrari to reduce drag from the SF-26 after a disappointing Miami Grand Prix weekend that saw the seven-time F1 drivers’ champion finish seventh in both the sprint and main race.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
He was promoted to sixth the full-distance following team-mate Charles Leclerc’s post-race 20-second time penalty, but the result offered little consolation after a challenging weekend for the 41-year-old in Florida.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The British driver’s difficulties were compounded by first-lap contact with Alpine’s Franco Colapinto, who finished one place behind him.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The collision caused damage to Hamilton’s car, costing him 15-20 points of downforce and severely hampering his race pace.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Despite Ferrari arriving in Miami with 11 different upgrades, the SF-26 struggled for straight-line speed, a deficit Hamilton wants addressed before the next round.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I’m looking forward to it,” the 105-time grand prix winner told media, including RacingNews365, when asked about the upcoming Canadian Grand Prix, where he has won seven times \u2014 but not since 2019.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“But we need to see if we can cut some drag before the next race, because in a straight line.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“We’ve got that deficit, and so we want to have a look into that.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Speaking to Sky Sports F1, Hamilton expressed frustration with the weekend’s performance and the impact of the early damage to his car.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Obviously, it wasn’t a good weekend at all. Seventh and a seventh [sixth after Leclerc’s time penalty], just no-man’s land in both races,” he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“But, for me, with the damage I had, there was nothing I could do, so really unfortunate because the team worked so far, so to come away with only a few points… we have to move on from it.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Take a look at the top speed data from the Miami Grand Prix, which underlines Hamilton’s lack of straight-line pace.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has called on Ferrari to reduce drag from the SF-26 after a disappointing Miami Grand Prix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-423854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","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-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}