Lewis Hamilton reveals Ferrari issue caused loss of downforce in Spain F1 practice

An issue for Lewis Hamilton in FP2 at🍸 the Spanish Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton hinted that an issue with his Ferrari F1 car was causing him♈ to lose downforce during Friday practice a𒁏t the Spanish Grand Prix.

After a positive FP1 session, Hami🍸lton struggled for pace in the ꦦmore representative second session.

Hamilton ended second practice in 11th place, just under eight tenths away from 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri’s time.

The seven-time world champion has historically excelled at the Circuit�⛦� de Catalunya-Barcelona.

Hamilt𝕴on was unbeaten in Spain between 2017 and 2021.

Even during his final years with Mercedes, Hamilton secured podium finishe🌳s in 2023 and 2024.

Reflecting on Friday practice at🎃 the Spanish GP, Hamilton described it as “not a good day.”

“Not fun. It’s a beautiful pla👍ce. The weather hཧas been amazing but no. Not a good day,” Hamilton said.

“I wouldn’t say I am motivating the team at the moment. Just keep your head down, keep working away. You can’t give up. You ke🤪ep going, keep pushing. Keep trying to focus on solving the issues which we will try to do.

“You arrive on a Friday and you’re hoping for a good day, and it doesn’t go well but then🍎 you have a weekend in Monaco where all of a sudden the car feels great. I thought the car was going to be good today but it wasn’t too bad in P1. P2 was quite a lot worse. 

“Nat♈urally that’s frustrating for everyone. We had some problem which meant we were losing some downforce, so hopefully with that fix for tomorrow ℱwe’ll be in a better place.”

Vasseur concedes Ferrari struggled in FP2

Fer♒rari teammate Charles Leclerc fared better, setting the fifth-quickest time in FP2.

However, he was over 0.5s off Piastri.

Reflecting on Ferrari’s Friday, team boss Fred Vasseur said: “I think we hꩲad a very good pace this morning. We struggled a bit more in the afternoon,” he added. “I think we had a decent lap with Charles before the mistake on [Turn] 7, he 🌱was in advance on P1.

“But the target is to put i꧃t 🔯up together, not to do some good corners only. And then we struggled a bit more at the beginning of each stint on the long stint.

“I think it was true for us, but true fo𒀰r a couple of other cars. The track was very dirty with a lot of marbles as soon as we were out of the line. It was quite difficult to recover.

“Overall, it was a long day, we collected also ♓good information. It was the first time that we were running the front wing. I think we’ll have a lot of work tonight.”

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