Stop the count! Donald Trump’s peculiar Tweet during the 2020 United States presidential election has long since become a meme. You can imagine, given Ferrari ’s double disqualification from the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix, that the Scuderia will be wishing fervently that everyone had just packed up and flown home on the Saturday, after Lewis Hamilton won the sprint race. Events in China then got rapidly out of hand as Hamilton and Charles Leclerc qualified a mildly disappointed fifth and sixth for the grand prix – where Charles contrived to hit his teammate on the opening lap, and yet managed to be fast enough with a broken front wing for the team to order Lewis to let him past.
Hamilton naturally chafed but eventually capitulated, though Leclerc derived little benefit because Max Verstappen caught and passed him anyway during the second stint. Then both drivers were disqualified for different reasons after the race, just as Leclerc, Hamilton and team boss Frederic Vasseur were trying to accentuate the positives in their various press conferences. Formula 1 Ferrari's Leclerc and Hamilton disqualified from F1 Chinese GP Formula 1 Ferrari explains why Leclerc's car was underweight in Chinese GP Both disqualifications were slam dunks to which Ferrari could offer the stewards no defence or mitigation but a mea culpa .
Perhaps most damningly, others have suffered similar DSQs in recent history which provided lessons Ferrari ought to have noted. Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari Photo by:.
