Ferrari, in Saudi Arabia: Charles Leclerc, on the podium, Lewis Hamilton, evicted

The Monegasco ended third, its best result of 2025, while English was barely seventh and hopes to live a “painful” season.

The enchantment period of Lewis Hamilton with Ferrari was completed. The heptacampeón posing at the Maranello plant, greeting each factory member, smiling are already sepia images, although just three months passed. In a calendar, it is little, but in formula 1 it is an eternity. The English idyll lasted only five races. After the Grandbia Saudi Grand, the former-Mercedes showed a sad, upheld, evicted countenance. On the other side of the box, Charles Leclerc was smiling after reaching his first 2025 podium at the end of third.

Hamilton lived a moment of absolute joy by winning China’s sprint. But it was just a small island in the middle of an endless ocean. There is no case, he is not comfortable with the SF-25, he suffers, suffers from it. He was barely seventh in Jeddah, a small reward for the illusion he had, because He left the Middle East in the seventh place of the table, at 68 Oscar Piastri points, the leader!

The most worrying of Hamilton is not the difference with the leader of the table, even that his Ferrari is not competitive to be able to fight with the McLaren or the Red Bull of Max Verstappen. The biggest problem is the countenance that Lewis showed after three consecutive racing weekends. “Actually there is nothing to extract from these three weeks, unless I am slow. I have to find out how to undo that. There has been no second in which I felt comfortable. Clearly, the car is able to finish in third position, so I cannot blame the car,” he confessed.

When he was asked to summarize his day, it was clear: “horrible.” And it extended: “There is no positive appearance today, only the podium of Charles that is great for the team. But for me it was not pleasant. I do not have an answer to give about the problems I have with the car. There is nothing, I try to maintain balance, feel the car, but there is nothing in particular. I am slow. At the moment there is no solution and so it will be the rest of the year, simply, painful. ”Frédéric Vasseur, director of the Scuderia, talked about Hamilton’s situation:” I had a very fast talk with him, but his weekend was hard. “

The countercara was Leclerc, who went happy with the podium. “In classification we had no rhythm. I am very happy with the race because we have maximized what there was. I am very happy. Now we have to improve the car to fight above, “he said. Ferrari already took Baréin an update to the bottom of the SF-25, but did not mean an important improvement. Leclerc’s podium came, of course, because of Norris’s mistake in the classification and the fall of Mercedes, which did not have in Jeddah the performance he had been shown in the previous appointments.