Ralf Schumacher noticed Lewis Hamilton “tension” after Charles Leclerc “woke up”

“I think that annoyed him, and there was so📖me tension. Hamilto♌n wasn’t used to being told to drive fast on the teammate’s side.”

Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc
Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc

Ex-F1 driver Ralf Schumacher noticed “some tension” at Ferrari after 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc’s impressive recovery at the Chinese Grand Prix.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton enjoyed a strong start to the wee𝔉kend last time out in Shanghai, d🉐ominating the sprint part of the weekend.

Hamilton took pole in sprint qualifyi𝔉ng before taking a comfortable sprint race victory.

Ferrari failed to replicate this in qualifying, settling for fifth and sixth෴ on the grid for the main grand prix.

It was a disastrous Sunday🥀 as Ferrari lacked pace relative to the top three teams.

Matters were made worsওe for Ferrari as their two cars were disqualified for technica❀l infringements.

, Schumacher said: “When you don’t know the team that well, you’re new, until you get thꦬe hang of it, until your engi🤡neer understands you, it takes a few months, and I think you saw that on Sunday.

“Of course, it wasn’t👍 in free air, which makes a big difference in Chinaꩲ, and his teammate passed him with the broken wing because I have to say, for the aerodynamicists, put six broken front wings in, they will work just as well or better than a whole one.

“So, it’s a bit of a hard o💯ne to understand, but I think he did a good, solid job, and I think Charles Leclerc also woke up. I thinkও that annoyed him, and there was some tension. Hamilton wasn’t used to being told to drive fast on the teammate’s side.”

Hamilton ‘proved’ he still has the speed

Schumacher believes China was a breakthrough weekend for Hami✅lton, who proved “he still has the speed”.

It was the first ti☂me Hamilton had won a sprint race since the format was introd🐽uced for 2021.

More importantly, Ha♐milton hit the ground running in terms of pace - something that wasn’t often the case at Mercedes.

“What did surprise me is that he really go💙t on really well with the car in the first practice session, 𒀰and that was always such an issue for him,” Schumacher explained.

“He brakes like that and couldn’t turn in and then he says, man, I drove here, first lap, and of course it w𝔍orked straight away, and the track suits me. This means that everything came tog🍰ether, which makes me happy because it proves that he still has the speed because that’s always a bit of a question as you get older.

“So 🎃he has the speed now, it’s just a question of can he keep it up, that’s what I♔ meant from the start.”

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