Lewis Hamilton accomplished his first outing in Ferrari’s most up-to-date F1 automobile at Barcelona on Tuesday.
The seven-time world champion returned to motion for Ferrari on the Spanish Grand Prix venue practically every week after crashing the workforce’s 2023 automobile on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
Together with McLaren, Hamilton and new teammate Charles Leclerc are participating in a two-day Pirelli tyre take a look at to help their 2026 improvement.
In contrast to Hamilton’s earlier personal testing with Ferrari, this programme was for Pirelli’s profit and dictated by F1’s tyre provider.
The main focus of the take a look at is evaluating the newest constructions for the 2026 tyres and the C1, C2 and C3 exhausting compounds.
Ferrari and McLaren are utilizing modified variations of their respective challengers, nevertheless it was Hamilton’s first style of driving the SF-24, having performed his earlier two exams within the SF-23.
Hamilton sooner than Leclerc
Lando Norris set the quickest time of the day with a 1m15.215s and accomplished 159 laps in McLaren’s MCL60 from 2023.
Lando Norris drove a modified 2023 McLaren
Subsequent up on the leaderboard was Hamilton, who posted a 1m15.930s with 87 laps. Hamilton was the faster of the 2 Ferrari drivers, although lap instances imply subsequent to nothing within the take a look at.
Leclerc managed 86 laps with the Monegasque setting a greatest lap of 1m16.060s.
It’s believed that Ferrari additionally ran their SF-23 for a TPC (Testing of Earlier Vehicles) on Tuesday to offer each Hamilton and Leclerc further time to make up for the setback attributable to Hamilton’s incident final week.
Pirelli’s tyre take a look at will proceed on Wednesday. Hamilton and Leclerc will as soon as once more break up driving duties for Ferrari, with Oscar Piastri taking up from Norris at McLaren.
