Lewis Hamilton believes Ferrari’s focus for the rest of the F1 season ought to be on securing P2 within the Constructors’ Championship fairly than shifting consideration to 2027.
The Ferrari crew has discovered itself within the highlight over the previous few race weekends. Regardless of their on-track efficiency needing enchancment, the teammate wheel-to-wheel battles and the media storm surrounding the Prancing Horse have been beneath scrutiny. Now, Lewis Hamilton has as soon as once more emphasised the significance of teamwork, this time needing to come back collectively to safe P2 within the Constructors’ Championship.
Whereas the legendary Italian outfit has suffered an extended title drought since 2008, the subsequent smartest thing can be for the crew to safe P2 within the Constructors’ Championship. Presently, the Scuderia does sit second within the Standings with 510 factors. Regardless of being a great distance off from the Constructors’ Championship winners, Mercedes, with 652 factors, Ferrari sit 95 factors forward of Purple Bull.
Their rivals at Purple Bull have lately seen a surge in efficiency, with Max Verstappen taking his first win of the season on the Bahrain GP in Malaysia, adopted by one other victory in Singapore, after which his third win of the yr in Mexico. Nonetheless, with solely three extra race weekends to go, Ferrari stay the favourites for runner-ups within the Constructors Championship.
“Effectively, we’ve started working to ensure we maintain on to second within the Constructors’ Championship, as a result of that impacts everybody again within the manufacturing facility,” Hamilton mentioned to Sky Sports activities F1 when requested whether or not the crew ought to shift their focus to 2027 as each the Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championships are unachievable.
“They actually deserve that place. So we’ve started working onerous at his subsequent races for certain. Within the background, we get to [go to] the manufacturing facility subsequent week after which begin engaged on the place we need to go.”
‘The engine might be primary’
With many whispers that this yr can be Ferrari’s season, Mercedes and Andrea Kimi Antonelli confirmed their true dominance, turning it into one other disappointment for the Tifosi. Nevertheless, the Italian outfit has nonetheless made necessary progress, pushing them in direction of a possible title battle subsequent season.
“I feel basically we’ve obtained an excellent automotive, and that’s right down to a tremendous group of individuals again on the manufacturing facility, who’re actually clever and have made the suitable selections,” Hamilton continued.
“As I’ve mentioned earlier than, we now have been innovators this yr. We’ve had issues on the automotive that everybody else has typically adopted. It’s simply that we all know we’re down on energy, and that’s one thing that we simply stay with. We now have to catch up for subsequent yr.”
Regardless of the Scuderia’s hopes, Hamilton revealed that they want extra horsepower to place up an actual battle for a title in 2027.
“I feel the engine might be primary [priority],” the seven-time World Champion reiterated on the Mexico Metropolis GP.
“We’ve obtained reliability, which is nice. But when we had been matching the facility of the others, we’d be preventing for the championship this yr, which we all know. So rectifying that and shutting the hole is necessary.”
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