Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has kept his feet on the ground despite 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton’s first pole position for the team.

Hamilton took an unexpected pole in sprint qualifying on Friday for Saturday’s sprint race at the F1 Chinese Grand Prix.

He edged Red ꧙Bull’s Max Verstappen by 0.018s to register hisඣ first thrilling moment as a Ferrari driver in the 2025 F1 season.

Lewis Hamilton pole position for sprint race in China

Howeꦯver, the always-realistic Vasseur is refusing to get too excited.

“It’s better than last week! But it’s still difficult to read and to understand, from one sessi꧟on to the other,” Vasseur told Sky Sports.

“Sometimes McLaren ha﷽ve a huge gap, sometimes it is not so.

“Le🙈t’s analyse the data. I t♛hink we have a lot of work to do.

“For sure, it’s a good feeling if you compare with last week where we s♓truggled a lot in quali and in the race. For sure, this is much better.

“It gives positive energy to the team, and this is good. But I always see t♌h🃏e negative!

“We can 𝔍score points this weekend in the sprint, and this is positive.

“Lewis [𒈔had consi꧟stency in qualifying] and this is good.”

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Ferrari endured a sub-par F1 Australian Grand Prix last weekend, beginning the season with a tyrꦚe strat🌼egy call which backfired and left Hamilton 10th, and Charles Leclerc eighth.

Hamilton was also scrutinised for the to🉐ne of his radio messages with engineer Riccardo Adami.

They were exp♚♛ected to remain behind the quick McLarens on Friday in China.

But, at the Shanghai International Circuit where Hamilton has won six races before, he was fourth in opening practiceꦺ then first in sprint 𒐪qualifying.

Hamilton has given himself the best possible opportunity to win the sprint race, which is the first session🐻 of Saturday’s running.

However, McLaren’s Oscar Piastri is third ಞ(behind Hamilton and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen), so will be an o🧸bvious threat.

It then remains to be seen whether Hamilton can deliver another impressive lap in qualifying for the grand prix, which takes pl♒ace after the sprint race on Saturday.