{"id":642288,"date":"2026-05-14T08:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/642288\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:24:23","slug":"ferrari-accused-of-breaking-number-one-rule-at-miami-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/642288\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari accused of breaking \u2018number one rule\u2019 at Miami GP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former IndyCar driver James Hinchliffe has claimed Ferrari<\/a> broke the \u201cnumber one rule of engineering\u201d by bringing a whopping 11 upgrades to the Miami GP. With so many new parts, the Canadian believes the Scuderia will have trouble understanding their lack of pace in the US, where they finished P6 and P8. <\/p>\n

Hopes had been high for Ferrari coming to the Sunshine State. While trailing Mercedes by some distance, the Scuderia had shown promise that they potentially could fight the Silver Arrows for victory, bolstered by the fact they brought more upgrades than any other team to Miami.<\/p>\n

However, Lewis Hamilton<\/a>\u2019s race unravelled in the early stages after contact with Franco Colapinto, and the Briton could only finish P6, while teammate Charles Leclerc<\/a>, having lost the final podium position to Oscar Piastri, spun on the final lap – damage and a 20-second time penalty condemned him to P8. The Monegasque also urged Ferrari to investigate his drop-off <\/a>in pace throughout the Grand Prix, citing high tyre degradation.For Hinchcliffe, Ferrari\u2019s woes lie in the sheer number of upgrades they brought to Florida, pointing instead to a more conservative or \u201csneaky\u201d approach from McLaren<\/a> team principal Andrea Stella that yielded a Sprint one-two finish and a double podium in the Grand Prix.How Ferrari broke ‘number one rule of engineering’\u00a0\"lewis-hamilton-miami-ferrari-jpg\"\/<\/p>\n

Photo: Race Pictures<\/p>\n

Speaking on the F1<\/a> Nation podcast, Hinchcliffe explained Ferrari brought too many changes to their SF-26 in Miami, making it difficult to isolate which parts worked and which did not. He said: \u201cThis is the number one rule of engineering is make one change at a time, so you can isolate what\u2019s actually better and worse.\u201cThey don\u2019t have that freedom, with no testing and a single practice session. You\u2019re bolting on 11 or 12 different components, and it really makes the job for the engineers difficult. It really makes the job for the drivers difficult to isolate what\u2019s helping, what\u2019s changing, what\u2019s hurting. This, that or the other. And all of these things work together, nothing is working in isolation on a Formula 1<\/a> car.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s massively challenging to bring such a large list of upgrades. So whether or not they maximised the potential of the car over the weekend, maybe, maybe not. I think they were doing a great job of maximising the car they had for the race until the spin at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

‘Mastermind’ Stella praised for McLaren’s approach\"andrea-stella-bahrain.jpg.\"\/<\/p>\n

Photo: Race Pictures<\/p>\n

Hinchcliffe instead pinpointed McLaren\u2019s Miami GP weekend as the way to go about bringing upgrades. The papaya team brought the second-most new parts to the States, tied with Red Bull on seven, but have seemingly made the most progress over F1\u2019s five-week break, closing their gap to championship leaders Mercedes after a strong 48-point weekend.<\/p>\n

Hinchcliffe said: \u201cIt\u2019s one of those sneaky things that you could see masterminded by Andrea Stella. He\u2019s one of those guys that would like, \u2018Yeah, we could have had all this done, we could delay these few parts, actually give ourselves another couple days to develop them\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd every engineer will tell you every extra day that you can develop it before you create it, before you produce it, could find a little bit more performance. And then the knock-on effect is we can do a little bit better job of isolating what\u2019s really performing well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former IndyCar driver James Hinchliffe has claimed Ferrari broke the \u201cnumber one rule of engineering\u201d by bringing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,98106,1707,158849,5027,1080,451,30648,30712,267199,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-642288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-headlines","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-mclaren","tag-miami-grand-prix","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}