Ferrari may have endured another afternoon to forget in Hungary on Sunday with Polyster Charles Leclerc ending fourth and Lewis Hamilton a 12 disappointing, but their basic performance showed that they could be challenging for victories this season.

Ferrari masks masks

Two unhappy drivers and speculation during HamiltonThe shape and the future suggested that Ferrari continued a falling spiral, but experienced rivals and viewers said the simple finish is incorrect.

Leclere gathered the squad destroyed “An opportunity“To win this season, but he changed his view after learning the cause of losing his car’s rhythm as he drove.

He had thought that a determined change of the front arm, during a stop, was his disintegration, but Ferrari said it was something that cost him about two seconds in the lap.

The Boss Fred Vasseur did not reveal the problem, but stressed that Leclerc’s latest form, including the Poles in Hungary and a Podium in Belgium, confirmed that their updated car was competitive – a picture separated by rival chief Andrea Stella from McLaren.

He said he thought Ferrari would be acontender for winning for the remainder of the season“While both vasseur and Mercedes Toto Wolff chief said Hamilton will shine again after the 40-year-old stated it wasuseless“And it must be replaced.

“He is looking for,“Said Vasseur.”But I think it’s also why he is the world champion seven times … I understand it and he will come back.“

Wolff, who directed Hamilton on six driver titles, said: “This is Lewis, wearing his heart on the sleeve. What he felt very much when asked immediately after that session and was very raw.

“But he is still goat (The greatest of all time) And he still has (the talent to win an eighth title).“

Norris’s honesty reflects the new era

Formerly a bastion of gladiatorial sports fighting with a testosterone -induced culture, the formula one has developed a more compassionate culture in recent years.

This was in rehearsals like Carlos Sainz defended his friend and former teammate McLaren Lando Norris‘Honesty.

“He opens in the media and for people more than any other driver on the network – And people use it against it“Said the Spaniard.

“What you see on TV is what he is like a human being. He is very good to show himself. I see that irony and frustrating – he is the only boy who is 100 percent genuine … And then people go back to him.“

After three wins in four races, Norris’s triumph on Sunday cut McLaren squad PlasticThe championship leads them to nine points to calm those critics who had accused him of being mentally weaker than the delightful, more introverted Australians.

“Is already difficult and will be tougher,“Said Norris.”Is pretty little borders between us … Even if the results look great, I’m not making life easier for myself, so I have to work on some things to be in a better place.“

Alonso offers inspiration for Hamilton

If Hamilton needed Sunday inspiration, it was found in Aston Martin where Fernando AlonsoA twice champion, which failed to lower a title in Ferrari, withdrew a back injury to reduce its best outcome of the year as the fifth was over.

Once friends of the bitter team in McLaren, the pair are now respectable colleagues and elderly F1 statesmen.

“Great points for the team before summer break, feels good,“Alonso said after he showed that he still got it in 44.

Alonso began his career in 2001, claimed his daughters’ victory in Hungary two years later, and participated in 417 Grands Prix (Hamilton started 370), but probably took a significant two years in 2019 and 2020 to recover from exhaustion.