Lewis Hamilton has called on Ferrari to study its rivals’ front wings, convinced McLaren, Mercedes and Red Bull have found a performance edge the Scuderia is missing.

Hamilton had a mixed weekend at the Miami Autodrome, at times happy with his upgraded SF-26, and at other times frustrated that it didn’t have the speed to fight for a podium.

Lewis Hamilton questions Ferrari front wing performance

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Ferrari brought 11 new parts to the Miami Autodrome, including a new front wing endplate, while at the rear of the car was the revised ‘Macarena’ wing.

But while Charles Leclerc was P1 in the sole practice hour, that was Ferrari’s only pace-setting moment in a weekend in which the team’s run of podium results came to an abrupt end.

Leclerc was already outside the top three before a last-lap spin dropped him to sixth, one position ahead of Hamilton, before a post-race penalty saw Leclerc plummet to P8.

Ferrari’s troubles were compounded as McLaren replaced the Scuderia as Mercedes’ closest rival, with Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri joining race winner Kimi Antonelli on the podium. Red Bull also showed improved pace with Max Verstappen recording a season’s best P2 in qualifying.

McLaren and Red Bull made inroads at the front as they updated their cars for Miami, with both teams introducing seven new parts.

One of Red Bull’s updates included a new front wing, with all three front wing elements and the endplate altered to increase the load or improve flow stability, while McLaren changed the MCL40’s front wing endplates as part of its next-level front wing package.

Hamilton believes both teams have found an advantage with their front wings, one that Mercedes had already discovered earlier in the season.