The team’s principal Frederick Wasasur injected some perspectives in Hamilton’s position.
“To make sure that when you are a world champion seven times, your team partner is in the position of pole and you are out in Q2, this is a difficult situation,” said Vasasur.
On the result of the race, Vasasur reported that Ferrari had gambling on a one-stop strategy starting on a hard tire on a track, where it is very difficult to overtake, and it “did not work”.
“I can understand disappointment from Lewis,” he said, “but it is normal, and he will come back.”
This season played an important role in persuading Hamilton to leave Mercedes to join Ferrari for this season, stating that Hungary’s results had made his driver’s weekend worse.
Yes, 0.247 seconds were slow compared to Hamilton Lakeler, when it was excluded from the qualifying after the second session. But Lakeler found it difficult to progress himself, and Hamilton was only 0.155Secs of his team partner in the first session.
The previous two races have seen a stall in positive speed Hamilton was building after a difficult start for his Ferrari career.
Since Miami in early May, there has been very little to choose between two drivers in qualifying, and in three out of four races before Belgium a week before Hungary, Hamilton has dropped out the worthy lakeler.
The spa has a variety of errors in the qualifying sessions for sprint and grand pricks, when he had anything, Hamilton felt ineffective.
Hamilton Belgium had a match for Lakeler on Paes, but a spin after a spin due to a combination of factors related to a new braking material saw her in the first session in sprint qualifying. And the same thing happened when he misused the exit on the eau rouge to get out of 180MPH+ and went to the track boundary of a little outside in qualifying for Grand Prix.
Even with problems in Belgium and Hungary, and very different characteristics need to be compatible with a new car at the beginning of the season, the average qualifying deficit of Hamilton is 0.146 seconds this year for Lakeler.
It is not what Hamilton will expect from himself, but it should be seen in this context that Ferrari – and many others in F1 – consider Lakeler as the fastest driver in the same lap in the world.
Hamilton’s critics point to his struggles against George Russell in his final season in Mercedes last year.
The 40-year-old has found that the ground-influence cars introduced in F1 in 2022 did not fit their late breaking style as well as the previous generation of cars. And it is a mystery that it is not able to be expected along with adaptation, or apparently with other drivers.
But Vasasura rejected any idea that he could be worried about Hamilton’s position.
“He is demanding,” Vasasur said, “but I also think why he is a seven -time world champion, that he is demanding with the team, with car, engineers, with mechanics, also with himself. But first he is demanding a lot with himself.”
