Charles Leclerc has revealed that his and Lewis Hamilton’s driving model is “very comparable” after some early exams forward of the 2025 F1 season.
Leclerc and Hamilton examined Ferrari’s 2025 F1 automobile for the primary time on Thursday at Fiorano.
Previous to this, Ferrari performed in depth testing in Ferrari’s 2023 automobile, with a view to get Hamilton on top of things together with his new group.
Each drivers additionally obtained to drive the 2024 automobile, which completed second within the constructors’ championship behind McLaren, in a Pirelli tyre check in Barcelona.
Whereas it is the Leclerc-Hamilton partnership continues to be in its early levels, the Monegasque has noticed an necessary similarity.
Leclerc feels they’ve the same driving model, which suggests they may “want comparable issues from the automobile”.
This wasn’t essentially the case alongside Carlos Sainz, who struggled with the 2022 automobile’s oversteery nature, which challenged Max Verstappen within the first a part of the 12 months.
Talking to media, together with Crash.web, Leclerc was requested about any similarities or variations with Hamilton.
“One thing I seen is that now we have a really comparable driving model which is a extremely good factor,” Leclerc defined. “I’m fairly certain we’ll want comparable issues from the automobile, or not less than that is my preliminary feeling.
“It’s nonetheless to be confirmed as we haven’t pushed that a lot collectively however the little I’ve seen we are likely to drive fairly equally.
“The issues we’ll do in a different way, in all probability the gown code, we gown very, very in a different way, however to every their very own method of expressing themselves in vogue.
“Clearly, Lewis is tremendous concerned in that, I’m a bit much less concerned in that, however possibly in that we’re completely different.”
Can Ferrari finish their title drought in 2025?
Ferrari’s F1 title drought stretches again to 2008, once they final gained the constructors’ title.
Since then, Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel did not deliver the drivers’ title dwelling.
For Leclerc, whereas he’s been at Ferrari since 2019, they’ve failed to offer him a automobile able to mounting a reputable title problem all through a complete season.
The temper within the camp at Ferrari following Hamilton’s arrival seems to be excessive, although, with Leclerc saying it’s the “greatest group mentality” he’s seen since being at Maranello.
Ferrari are anticipated to be in rivalry for the title in 2025, however will face stern competitors from McLaren, which ended final 12 months because the quickest group.
Pink Bull will nonetheless fancy their probabilities as Max Verstappen seems to win a fifth consecutive title.
