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[Saba Sports News] Unbroadcast team radio communications revealed Lewis Hamilton’s emotional outburst at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. After charging from qualifying 12th all the way to fourth, the seven-time champion declared to the Ferrari engineers: “If we had been just 0.3 seconds faster in qualifying, we’d be celebrating the championship now!” During the race, Hamilton overtook both his teammate Charles Leclerc and Alexander Albon, doing so with such ferocity that even engineer Riccardo Adami exclaimed, “That’s brutal!” Telemetry data showed that Hamilton still managed the third-fastest lap in the final few laps, trailing the pole winner Max Verstappen by only 0.8 seconds. However, these post-race undisclosed exchanges also exposed Ferrari’s fatal weakness: their qualifying pace has lagged the top by over one second for six consecutive races. According to internal sources at Ferrari, Hamilton directly confronted technical director Enrico Cardile at the post-race technical meeting: “Why does every qualifying session feel like a lottery?” Data shows that the SF-25 car experiences a fluctuation of up to 15% in rear downforce during qualifying setups, a critical flaw that prevents drivers from pushing to their limit.