Max Verstappen has issued a congratulatory message to Lewis Hamilton after the latter bagged his first win for Ferrari on Sunday.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Hamilton returned to the top step of the podium for the first time in almost two years, ending Mercedes’ streak at the start of the campaign.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Mercedes has held a sizeable advantage over the field at the start of the year, but a significant Ferrari upgrade brought it into play in Barcelona.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Hamilton’s victory comes after he endured a dismal opening campaign with Ferrari in 2025, when he often struggled for pace.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
When asked what he thought of Hamilton’s victory, Verstappen told media including RacingNews365: \u201cWell done, congratulations.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s always super special to win, even when you’ve won already so much. To win with Ferrari for the first time, it’s always a special moment.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
For Verstappen, it was a difficult race as Red Bull continued to lack pace to compete at the front of the field.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Dutchman crossed the line in fourth place as he found himself boosted up the order late on due to sudden retirements for Charles Leclerc and Kimi Antonelli.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Dissecting where Red Bull was missing form, Verstappen added: \u201cFor sure a little bit high speed, but that was not even in qualifying the big problem.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s just high energy tracks, high degradation, that’s where we seem to lack still.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has issued a congratulatory message to Lewis Hamilton after the latter bagged his first win for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3007,3010,3008,3011,3009,831,372,49,832,3006,3005,50,3004,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-640041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-headlines","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}