Overview
- After a bruising Miami weekend, Lewis Hamilton told Ferrari to trim the SF-26's drag because the car lacked top speed on the straights.
- He put the loss at three to four tenths per lap on long straights and said rivals use a different front-wing concept that Ferrari should study.
- Ferrari arrived in Miami with 11 new parts, yet the upgrade package did not deliver the straight-line gains seen by McLaren and Red Bull.
- Hamilton's car suffered first-lap contact with Alpine's Franco Colapinto that cost about 15–20 points of downforce, and he placed seventh before Charles Leclerc's 20-second penalty moved him to sixth.
- Toto Wolff highlighted Red Bull's step forward in Miami, and the Canadian Grand Prix now looms as a clear read on Ferrari's low-drag response.