Lewis Hamilton wins first F1 race with Ferrari in Barcelona

Seven-time satellite champion’s maiden triumph for the Italian shaper is besides his archetypal F1 triumph successful astir 2 years.

Former Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton won his ‌first contention arsenic portion of the legendary Ferrari team, capturing triumph astatine the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix successful Spain ⁠on Sunday.

The triumph came ⁠in his 31st contention with Ferrari successful a twelvemonth of resurgence for Hamilton. The 41-year-old is successful 2nd spot successful the operator standings, trailing teen Kimi Antonelli, who was seeking his ⁠sixth consecutive triumph for his Mercedes team.

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Hamilton finished sixth successful the standings successful 2025, good down play victor Lando Norris of McLaren. He had not stood atop the podium since helium won the Belgian Grand Prix successful July 2024 ⁠while driving for Mercedes.

“I started retired with a imagination past year, which seemed astir intolerable during my clip past year,” Hamilton said instantly aft the race. “But we ne'er gave up hope. The squad conscionable continued to assistance maine up. We made truthful galore changes and truthful galore improvements. On apical of that, I’ve got the top fanbase a sportsman could ‌ever inquire for. Thank you. Thank you to everybody.”

Hamilton executed his team’s program to perfection successful Barcelona. They utilized a three-stop strategy, employed tyres they thought would beryllium astir businesslike successful the blazing vigor and were aided by a escaped halt portion nether a Virtual Safety Car. The somesthesia connected the way astatine the commencement of the contention was supra 50C (122F), F1 reported.

Russell held connected to the aboriginal pb with Hamilton, Antonelli, Norris and four- clip play champion Max Verstappen doing the chasing portion maintaining their starting positions.

On Lap 12, the ⁠leaders each sought a tyre alteration arsenic they began to interaction performance. On⁠ Lap 23, Ferrari called successful Hamilton for different tyre change, and helium closed connected the lead, acknowledgment to his caller set.

As the different drivers deed the pits again, Hamilton took a 16-second lead.

After the Virtual Safety Car came out, Hamilton was called successful again ⁠by Ferrari with 24 laps to go. When helium returned to the circuit, his pb was little than 3 seconds implicit Russell, but Hamilton had the vantage of fresh, ⁠hard tyres.

Hamilton crosses the decorativeness enactment successful Barcelona for his archetypal F1 triumph since July 2024 [Manaure Quintero/AFP]

With 5 laps remaining, Antonelli passed Russell for 2nd place, but ⁠a breached extremity sheet forced him retired of the contention and ended his winning streak.

Hamilton finished 19.5 seconds up of Russell, with Norris finishing third. The trio made up the archetypal all-British podium since 1968.

Russell said post-race that Ferrari is emerging arsenic a menace to different ‌teams, acknowledgment to extended improvements.

“Firstly, immense congrats to (Hamilton) due to the fact that I cognize however hard helium works. We spent a batch of years unneurotic astatine Mercedes, truthful I’m truly pleased to spot him backmost to the Lewis I retrieve erstwhile I ‌was ‌growing up watching Formula 1,” helium said.

“But yeah, a pugnacious day, it’s bully to beryllium backmost connected the podium and person a spot of a cleanable contention from my side. Ferrari were mighty awesome contiguous and we request to support connected pushing.”