Guenther Steiner Explains Why Ferrari Has No Easy Fix After McLaren Emerges

Guenther Steiner believes there are a number of, smaller issues to be mounted at Ferrari reasonably than one huge challenge.

While Ferrari has had a powerful begin to the 2026 season, with Lewis Hamilton celebrating his first grand prix podium end with the Maranello outfit on the Chinese Grand Prix, the workforce arrived on the Miami Grand Prix underneath risk from McLaren.

The surprising five-week break in April gave groups the chance to deliver upgrades to Miami. A closely upgraded automobile resulted in a greater increase for McLaren. And so Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri completed second and third, respectively, within the grand prix, Hamilton completed sixth and Charles Leclerc was categorized eighth after a 20-second penalty.

“There’s always something. The last little bit is missing. I would wish nothing better for them to get over that hurdle and to stay there because maybe when you get that feeling, you carry everything,” the previous Haas workforce principal defined throughout an look on The Red Flags Podcast.

“Then they announced already, John Elkann said that Ferrari is back. Yeah, guess what? A race later, they’re back where they were before. Just give yourself time to announce things. Get there and be there, not just get there.”

Charles Leclerc, Ferrari

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When requested which space he thinks wants enchancment for Ferrari, Steiner added: “There just isn’t one factor, it is a variety of little issues. There’s not one huge factor as a result of if there have been one huge factor, it might be simpler to fix.

“There’s a variety of little issues. It looks like they wrestle extra when the tires become older. That’s usually all the way down to downforce since you slide extra, you utilize them up extra. I feel the ability unit is fairly good, however it appears that evidently all the time the start of the race, they’ll combat, and the additional you go into the race, the more serious it will get for them.

“The power unit shouldn’t get worse over distance, so it’s one of these things I don’t really know. But they are very close again. It’s not that they are far off.”