Miami, Florida – On one side of the Paddock in Hard Rock Stadium Mercedes, Kimi Antonelli’s first pole position celebrated in Formula 1, while the young driver conquered P1 for Saturday’s F1 Sprint race in the Miami Grand Prix.
On the other side of the paddock, the driver who filled Antonelli was looking for fear and yet Antin and struggled to find at the beginning of the 2025 season.
“It was a better session.
The Ferrari driver granted that he was not optimistic about filling fighting when the lights go out on Saturday.
“I think all cars are faster. I don’t know what else to say.”
Asked for who he and the team can apply sub -improvements prior to the qualification for the Miami Grand Prix, which comes later in the day to Saturday, Hamilton outlined that there are always “ideas” available.
“There are always ideas. Whether or not they will be good or not … There are certainly lessons to take -Set -Up changes, how the car back, there is certainly work to do to raise speed in the rest of the weekend.”
On the other side of the Garage Charles Lecllcal, just before Hamilton in P6 in P6, his own frustration qualified with the “annoying” lack of pace of the SF-25.
“Bad,” Leclerc started when he was asked how he felt that the qualification was going. “The round was good, but the pace is just not at all for now, so it’s a bit annoying, but it’s the way it is for now.
“I will do my best tomorrow to try to do special at the beginning, but to be honest, there is not much room for improvement today. It was just … That is the pace of the car,” Leclerc continued.
“It’s really the corner, so it’s not as if we are private weak in one type of corner. Yes, the Sems with slow speed to be a little more of our weakness, but it changes from one week to another, so it’s just not great.”
After the prizes of Antonelli, Ferrari Team director Frederic Vasseur sounded a bit more optimistic than his two drivers.
“Congratulations to Kimi for his megaronde, I did well and he is still a long way off,” Vasseur started in the team’s media report after the session.
“Behind him, the situation was much closer and we were not far from the boys for us Buty’s not Angouch, because we found it difficult to put everything together. There were Strad and we struggled with the Autobalans and that is today in a good thing in a good thing.
“Tomorrow tire management and relegation will come into play in the Sprintrace and it can be a different story.”
The problem can be the traffic with which BYB Hamilton and Leclerc will be confronted. Leclern spoke with the media on Thursday and emphasized how difficult it is to walk in dirty air this season. Hamilton’s victory in the F1 Sprint Race in the Chinese Grand Prix came for example when he qualified in advance.
According to Leclerc, turning in traffic is a lot of different story.
“It’s interesting because these cars are very, very difficult to drive in dirt [air]Especially this year, “said Leclerc on Thursday during his media session.” We see more differences than in the past, and therefore yes, that makes a difference to try to find free air and use your pace to have a strategic advantage later in the race. “
If Leclerc or Hamilton Cá find that free air, they can be shot in the F1 Sprint Race on Saturday.
But finding it can be difficult, given the cars that will start for them.