Prudy 1️⃣0️⃣6️⃣🏆💜🖤💛

Just here for Lewis Hamilton and #TeamLH only

[Prudy 1️⃣0️⃣6️⃣🏆💜🖤💛 @prudydear]

I had to …. Hopefully it’s better than here 😉

[MV33Racing🏎 @MV33Racing]

Do you know why Charles Leclerc has so much class, both as a driver and as a person?

Last year, he was out there fighting on his own in a tractor against the McLaren rocketships and Max Verstappen.

The result: 7 podiums and a pole position.

And not once did he go in front of the cameras to complain about getting no help from his teammate.

[barr. doctor aj @aj_masalto]

HAPPY 48 HOURS ANNIVERSARY TO ALL THOSE WHO CELEBRATE

[Hamilton Insights @LH44_insights]

We’ve really come a long way!! Look at us

[Prudy 1️⃣0️⃣6️⃣🏆💜🖤💛 @prudydear]

@roxyinmotion @mugellomerchant Against supporters union (ASU) 🤌🏾

[Scuderia Ferrari HP @ScuderiaFerrari]

With you every step Lewis ❤️

[Prudy 1️⃣0️⃣6️⃣🏆💜🖤💛 @prudydear]

What u say now????

[👁 @axtrophil]

Signing Hamilton was a mistake in terms of team mentality & approach. Went for the hire for publicity instead of getting staff that can strengthen the team. He has more experience than 95% of the grid and he's complaining about settings and buttons. He's not a +

[Formula 1 @F1]

Another round, another perfect 10 in the @aramco Power Rankings 🔥

#F1 #BarcelonaGP

[Prudy 1️⃣0️⃣6️⃣🏆💜🖤💛 @prudydear]

See, when he wins, F1 is better

[Formula 1 @F1]

The first tile painted red ✅

#F1 #BarcelonaGP

[Formula 1 @F1]

A third member of the 2026 winners' club 🏆

#F1 #BarcelonaGP

[Gigi 🇨🇲 #squadraLH @gigi_teamlh]

Meanwhile Charles Leclerc :

[Prudy 1️⃣0️⃣6️⃣🏆💜🖤💛 @prudydear]

@tweetingshak @LewisHamilton If I write what I actually think here, y’all will put me in twitter jail

[Prudy 1️⃣0️⃣6️⃣🏆💜🖤💛 @prudydear]

@tirii_f1 You either can’t read or lack comprehension skills, or even both

[Prudy 1️⃣0️⃣6️⃣🏆💜🖤💛 @prudydear]

@Charles_Leclerc You’ll bounce back

[Sarah @sidneylandsam]

The ‘drink objectivity juice’ opener followed by 500 words of this is peak cosplay objectivity. U didn’t analyze both drivers. U discredited LH’s results by attributing them to politics & dismissed CL’s entire career with ‘character deficit.’ That’s just bias with a neutral voice

[Prudy 1️⃣0️⃣6️⃣🏆💜🖤💛 @prudydear]

Girl came out of retirement with a bang

[Hamilton Insights @LH44_insights]

Lewis Hamilton’s first win in red or the Heist at Barcelona

I will be honest. When the grid formed on Sunday morning and I saw Lewis on used softs against Antonelli and Russell on mediums, I was not cautiously optimistic. I was convinced I was about to watch a disaster unfold in slow motion. The thermal degradation at Barcelona is punishing. The soft tyre degrades fast. And the idea that he would jump the Silver Arrows at the start and then somehow hold two faster cars at bay felt like my wishful thinking dressed as strategy. Verstappen being on softs too gave me pause, because Red Bull almost never miscalculate. Almost. It removed a tenth of my concern. I was still ninety percent terrified.
What I had not accounted for was that Lewis was not racing Mercedes. He was running an operation against them.

Twelve years inside that organisation gives you something no strategy software can replicate: you know exactly where the system breaks. Lewis watched Toto Wolff navigate the Hamilton-Rosberg equilibrium, then the Russell dynamic, then every iteration of the internal political contract that governs how Mercedes treats its drivers when a championship is at stake. He did not just race for Mercedes. He studied it. And what he brought to Ferrari's pit wall was a map of the precise point where Mercedes' governance structure becomes a liability.

That point is this: a Mercedes in a title fight cannot coordinate against a third party without triggering an internal crisis. Equal treatment is not a courtesy at Mercedes. It is a structural constraint, baked into how decisions get made, how stops get called, how risk gets allocated between two drivers fighting each other as much as the field. Two Silver Arrows sounds like a threat. In reality, it is two cars whose strategic interests are partially opposed, managed by a team that will optimise for fairness before it optimises for victory.

Lewis knew this. Ferrari built their entire race around it.
When he said on Saturday that facing two Mercedes would be difficult, he was being truthful. He simply was not being completely so. The other truth, the one that actually shaped the race, is that a politically constrained opponent is a structurally weaker opponent, regardless of how fast their car is. You simply need to find the system’s crack in it and apply pressure there.

And the crack opened exactly as designed. Mercedes compromised the ideal timing of their two-stop by responding at the first stops to Hamilton's three-stop. Every call they made was filtered through two questions simultaneously: what is right for the race, and most importantly, what is fair between our drivers. When Antonelli was visibly faster than Russell on the hards and radioing for help, Mercedes held firm. Equal treatment. It cost them around 1.5 seconds. Ferrari only ever had to answer one question.

Then came the number that made it clinical. The theoretical pit stop time loss was 23 seconds. Lewis was going so much faster than both Mercedes that the computer was already projecting he would pass them both before the end. Then Alonso pulled off at Turn 10 on lap 40. The VSC came out, Lewis took his third stop and emerged still in the lead on fresh hards. He never had to test those projections on track. According to the race data, Alonso had just handed Hamilton and Ferrari the certainty of a victory they might have been set for anyway.

This victory did not come from nowhere. It came from a team and a driver assembling something race by race since the start of this season, each weekend adding a layer of fluency between Lewis and a machine that spent most of 2025 refusing to speak his language. Barcelona was not a breakthrough. It was a culmination.

None of this happens without Ferrari doing their part. They showed up in Barcelona with a transformative upgrade, a car that had become F1's fastest through corners, and a strategy wall willing to bet the race on one asymmetric read. Lewis did not win despite his machinery. He won because for the first time in two years, the machinery finally matched the driver inside it. In F1, nobody wins in a shitbox. And Ferrari made sure he did not have to.

And then he picked up the microphone. “To Team LH, I wouldn’t be standing here today without the support that you’ve given me. You really saved my life last year and helped me pick up from a dark place in a difficult moment in my life. So I just wanted to dedicate this win to you. This is our win.”

His 106th. His first in red. Built on insider knowledge, executed with mathematical ruthlessness and delivered on raw pace. But ultimately, a reminder that behind the operation, behind the data and the loophole and the 23 seconds, there is a human being who needed saving too. And came back to win anyway.

I am immensely proud and happy for him. I wish him continuous devastating pace, consistency and wit, and a team that keeps building him the tools to unleash it all. The records will keep following naturally...

... As I have seen somewhere... #W8ForIT 😉

[Formula 1 @F1]

❤️

#F1 #BarcelonaGP

[Prudy 1️⃣0️⃣6️⃣🏆💜🖤💛 @prudydear]

@ackinos876 We love to see him like that

[Prudy 1️⃣0️⃣6️⃣🏆💜🖤💛 @prudydear]

Toto doesn’t what to be on the receiving end this time 🤣🤣🤣

[deni @fiagirly]

#F1 | Toto Wolff when asked if he’d like to fight Lewis Hamilton for the World Championship:

“I'd rather not fight with him for a title, because I know what he's capable of.”

“If he smells blood, he goes [for it]. I've seen it many years where suddenly, the Lewis Hamilton train, started to go, and then it's very difficult to stop it.”

[Scuderia Ferrari HP @ScuderiaFerrari]

All in this together❤️🍾

[🇯🇲7hanos876🇯🇲 @thanos876]

#F1 is a much better sport when Lewis is competitive and wins.