Hamilton on fans helping him through difficult first Ferrari season
Lewis Hamilton says his fans "rescued" him from a "dark place" during a difficult first season with Ferrari, after taking his first win for the team at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. Hamilton said: "It was really the fans that rescued me. Last year several of the fans were shouting to me: 'Don't forget who you are.' That really resonated with me, and I had to question how do I find myself again? How do I centre? How do I find the courage and the strength to keep going, keep building and keep trying?"
Hamilton: Fans rescued him from 'dark place'
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Aston Martin chief trackside officer Mike Krack apologised to fans after a nightmare Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix weekend for the team, with Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso qualifying 21st and 22nd and both retiring from the race. Alonso started from the pit lane after power unit component changes, Stroll stopped with a gearbox problem after five laps, and Alonso later pulled up on lap 38. Krack said: “I am really sorry for all the fans that have bought expensive tickets to see their heroes.”
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Wolff on recalibrating how Russell and Antonelli race each other
Toto Wolff says Mercedes will “recalibrate” how George Russell and Kimi Antonelli race each other after their wheel-to-wheel fight in Barcelona left them at risk of holding each other up as Lewis Hamilton pulled away in the lead. Wolff said: "Number one, there is a third party not getting involved in a championship fight – constructor and driver. And in that respect we will discuss internally with them with the two drivers how we want to end the situation where we risk holding each other up. I think it was not a problem, it is just maybe we need to recalibrate."
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Norris to appear at Goodwood Festival of Speed
Reigning world champion Lando Norris will appear at next month’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, organisers have confirmed. The event runs from 9-12 July, between the British and Belgian grands prix.
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Mekies on FIA benchmark status for Red Bull Ford ICE power
Red Bull's Laurent Mekies said there is no evidence the Red Bull Ford engine is the strongest on internal combustion power, after the FIA declared it the benchmark for the ADUO upgrade system and agreed to review the data again. Mekies said: "We are completely with the fact that the rule states that you should only try to estimate the pecking order of the ICE power. We are completely okay with that; we have all agreed to that, and we don't think that is the issue. Where we certainly would like to have a deeper conversation is because we do not see one single data sample that indicates that we would have an advantage over our friends at Mercedes."
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Leclerc on matching Hamilton after Ferrari's Barcelona win
Charles Leclerc says he has to be “up there” with Ferrari team-mate Lewis Hamilton after his Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix win, following a weekend that ended with Leclerc retiring. Leclerc said: "I mean, it's great for the team, it's great for Lewis. The team has been pushing massively to bring upgrades, and it seems to be working fine, so now I've got to be with him up there, which hasn't been the case in Canada."
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Russell on Mercedes and HPP reliability concerns
George Russell says recent reliability failures are a "big concern" for Mercedes and High Performance PowerTrains (HPP) after Kimi Antonelli retired from the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix with an electrical shutdown. Russell said: "So, it's a shame to see how the race ended for him and obviously for us as a team and as HPP, we've had a few failures recently, so that's a big concern for us."
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Elkann congratulates Hamilton on first Ferrari win
Ferrari chairman John Elkann has congratulated Lewis Hamilton on his first victory for the team, calling it “an emotional moment and a very important result,” after Hamilton won the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. Elkann’s message comes months after he criticised Ferrari’s drivers following a double retirement at the 2025 Sao Paulo Grand Prix, when he said it was “important that they focus on driving and talk less”.
Six months after brutal criticism, John Elkann salutes Lewis Hamilton debut Ferrari win
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McLaren team principal Andrea Stella says Ferrari now has Formula 1’s best chassis after Lewis Hamilton won the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix with the team’s upgraded SF-26. Stella said: "I think this race gives us very clear indications. I think these indications are that Ferrari, at the moment, is the car with the best chassis. We see in the middle sector, especially in the medium-speed corner, that Ferrari is the fastest in the corners, not necessarily the fastest in the straights."
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Lando Norris says Ferrari would be “dominating” Formula 1 if they had a better engine, after Lewis Hamilton took the Scuderia’s first win of the season at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. Lando Norris said: "We're lucky that Ferrari don't have a better engine at the minute. If they had a better engine they're dominating. They're the class of the field in terms of cornering performance at the minute and we're not even close to them. It's the realistic point of it, we're a long, long way from where we need to be. If they make improvements on the engine side, then they'll embarrass everyone."
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Leclerc on Barcelona retirement after power-steering, gear and brake failure
Charles Leclerc said he was forced to retire from the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix with three laps remaining after a power-steering failure, which he said was followed by the loss of gears and brakes. Leclerc said: "Yeah, I lost the power steering. Oh no, no [I could not have continued without power steering]. I had no gears, and I had no brakes as well, so it would have been tough."
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Hamilton on carrying injury through 2025 after Catalunya crash
Lewis Hamilton says he carried an injury through last season after a “big crash” at the Circuit de Catalunya, speaking after winning yesterday’s race there for Ferrari. Hamilton said: "I trained very, very, hard this year. Last year was difficult from the beginning because I got injured here, actually, a big crash that I had here last year and I was carrying that injury through the whole year which was really really difficult."
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Stella on McLaren raising reliability standards after Spain
Andrea Stella said McLaren have “raised the bar” on reliability after Lando Norris returned to the podium at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix, but added the team still have “quite a lot to improve” on performance. Stella said: "It’s good that we haven’t had any issues here in Spain. We have definitely raised the bar, the level of attention, and used situations we had in the previous races to reset and increase the standards in the way we do things. We need to retain these standards, the mission is very clear – we only want to think about performance, an area of performance in which we also have quite a lot to improve."
McLaren ‘definitely raised the bar' in Barcelona – Stella
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