Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc arrive with Italy

Monza, the Temple of the Tifosi, is the next Formula 1 station and the Scuderia comes from the double abandonment of Zandvoort, without victories in the season and with the English with a penalty.

Not even the most pessimistic Ferrari fan in the world will have imagined this present by January, when in the cold and neblinous Maranello the pompous presentation of Lewis Hamilton was held as a new pilot. After the deputy championship of builders of 2024 and the five wins, the Tifosi de la Rossa that abound in the world were excited to fight for titles in 2025. And, if the good performance was added the arrival of the heptacampeon, everything painted for a great season. But … nothing further. The SF-25 was born badly, with rear suspension problems that complicated the height of the car, with a complicated performance window and far from being able to fight for triumphs. Charles Leclerc took his face for the Scuderia with five podiums, but that knows little. The panorama was clouded even more in the Netherlands, with the double abandonment, after Lewis (Sol) and Charles accidents (unusual by Kimi Antonelli).

In the midst of that context, the Italy GP arrives, in Monza, the temple of speed. There, where thousands and thousands of fans dress in red every year and fill the stands waiting for a triumph of Ferrari. They still last in the memory of the Tifosi the crazy celebration under the podium in 2024 for the success of Leclerc. The Rossa won 20 times at home and the chance to celebrate the 21 seems distant.

“Obviously, we have a lot of pressure as a team. More for me now, because I have not had a good season. Next week we will try to absorb all the energy of the fans,” Hamilton saidwho has triumph in the Sprint of China as its highest moment since its arrival in Ferrari. In the 15 races played in the year, Lewis could only end twice ahead of Leclerc in the main races (Emilia-Romagna and Great Britain). His illusion of fulfilling the dream of winning with Ferrari in Monza will have a large lock this year: he must penalize with five positions in the starting grid for not having respected the double yellow flag of Zandvoort’s last curve in the return of installation prior to the assembly of the grid.

“I hope some of us win. It would be very special. I don’t think we are the favorites, but you never know. Energy and environment are really special,” Leclerc analyzed. That special energy began this Wednesday, with a Ferrari event in the center of Milan, in the glamorous Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II and that continued in the square, in front of Duomo.

The Scuderia will go with a special decoration in Monza, with the white motor roof, in tribute to the 502t years with which Niki Lauda became champion in 1950. Clay Regazzoni was the winner of the Italian GP of 1975, with that model to which tax will be paid. Will the energy of the Tifosi and from History reach so that Ferrari can get the first triumph of the year in Monza? It seems complicated with the strong walk of the McLaren, but fans are excited the same and was demonstrated in the madness that broke out in Milan, two days before the start of the activity.