Lewis Hamilton delivered a frank assessment of Ferrari’s current level of performance following sprint qualifying for the F1 Miami Grand Prix.

Hamilton secured seventh on the grid for Saturday’s sprint race in Miami, one place behind Ferrari teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc.

Ferrari were once again the fourth-fastest team over one lap, trailing Mercedes, with168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Kimi Antonelli storming to his first-ever pole position.

The two McLarens, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell, all start ahead of the two Ferraris, continuing the Italian t🔥eam’s disappointing start to the 2025 F1 season.

It w💯as a more encouraging session for Hamilton, given he was just two-tenths off Leclerc’s pace.

In Saudi Arabia, Hamilton was over six-tenths behind Leclerc in qualifyi😼ng.

Hamilton reflected on 📖sprint qualifying: “It was a ✨better session. P1 was probably a bit better. “The car was a bit nicer to drive in P1. We’re just lacking the speed. Just got to keep working on from there.”

Hamilton was then asked if it would be possible for F🎶errari to make progress in the spri🦩nt race.

He replied: “Not really. All the cars🐟 [ahead] are faꦫster. I don’t know what else to say.”

Hamilton admits “there’s work to do”

Hamilton’s arrival from Mercedes at the start of the season r🦩esulted in optimism that Ferrari’s title dro☂ught would finally end in 2025.

Ferrari narrowly missed out on the 2024 F1 constructors’ ch🐼ampionship to McLa𒊎ren.

The Scuderia ended last year with the second-quickest car as Leclerc and Carlos Sainz regularly challenged for race victorie🐷s.

Despite the regulations remaining stable over the winter, Ferrari opted to🧜 make sig✱nificant changes to their car for this year, including a major change to their suspension.

So far, it’s not wo🏅rked out, with Ferrari scoring just one podium in the opening five rounds.

Hamilton’s s꧑print race win in China appears to be an anomaly, however.

Looking ahead to the rest of the weekend in Miami, H൩amilton conceded there🎃’s “work to do” to find more performance.

“There’s always ideas,” Hamiltܫon added. “Whether they✨’re right or not. There’s definitely learnings to take from today and setup changes we’ve made, how the car behaved. There’s definitely work to do to pick up speed going into the rest of the weekend.”