Lewis Hamilton hinted that a problem along with his Ferrari F1 automobile was inflicting him to lose downforce throughout Friday apply on the Spanish Grand Prix.
After a constructive FP1 session, Hamilton struggled for tempo within the extra consultant second session.
Hamilton ended second apply in eleventh place, just below eight tenths away from Oscar Piastri’s time.
The seven-time world champion has traditionally excelled on the Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona.
Hamilton was unbeaten in Spain between 2017 and 2021.
Even throughout his last years with Mercedes, Hamilton secured podium finishes in 2023 and 2024.
Reflecting on Friday apply on the Spanish GP, Hamilton described it as “not an excellent day.”
“Not enjoyable. It’s a good looking place. The climate has been wonderful however no. Not an excellent day,” Hamilton stated.
“I wouldn’t say I’m motivating the group in the intervening time. Simply preserve your head down, preserve working away. You possibly can’t quit. You retain going, preserve pushing. Maintain attempting to deal with fixing the problems which we’ll attempt to do.
“You arrive on a Friday and also you’re hoping for an excellent day, and it doesn’t go effectively however then you’ve gotten a weekend in Monaco the place unexpectedly the automobile feels nice. I assumed the automobile was going to be good right now nevertheless it wasn’t too unhealthy in P1. P2 was quite a bit worse.
“Naturally that’s irritating for everybody. We had some drawback which meant we had been shedding some downforce, so hopefully with that repair for tomorrow we’ll be in a greater place.”
Vasseur concedes Ferrari struggled in FP2
Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc fared higher, setting the fifth-quickest time in FP2.
Nevertheless, he was over 0.5s off Piastri.
Reflecting on Ferrari’s Friday, group boss Fred Vasseur stated: “I believe we had an excellent tempo this morning. We struggled a bit extra within the afternoon,” he added. “I believe we had a good lap with Charles earlier than the error on [Turn] 7, he was upfront on P1.
“However the goal is to place it up collectively, to not do some good corners solely. After which we struggled a bit extra at the start of every stint on the lengthy stint.
“I believe it was true for us, however true for a few different vehicles. The observe was very soiled with a variety of marbles as quickly as we had been out of the road. It was fairly tough to get better.
“Total, it was a protracted day, we collected additionally good info. It was the primary time that we had been operating the entrance wing. I believe we’ll have a variety of work tonight.”
