Lewis Hamilton has supplied particulars about his “extremely essential” preparations for his debut F1 season with Ferrari.
The seven-time world champion has been spending latest weeks adapting to his new group, a interval during which he has embedded himself at Maranello and pushed Ferrari’s 2023 and 2024 automobiles.
Hamilton bought to check out Ferrari’s 2025 challenger, the SF-25, for the primary time throughout a quick shakedown at Fiorano on Wednesday, earlier than talking to media at size for the primary time since his blockbuster swap.
Requested in regards to the significance of his work to rise up to hurry with Ferrari, together with jotting down data in a pocket book, Hamilton advised Sky Sports activities F1’s Ted Kravitz: “It’s extremely essential. You are making an attempt to choose up as a lot as you may as quick as attainable.
“I am very, very lucky I had the expertise of going from one group to a different once I went to Mercedes and clearly a a lot completely different level in my life, however I did the perfect I might with what I knew then.
“Happily, now I’ve much more expertise and I will, I really feel, to hurry that course of up much more. However it’s a very, very steep studying curve. It is an enormous organisation.
“They do issues utterly completely different to what I’ve achieved within the final 10 years, 12 years, for instance. I do not know the way a lot you may shortcut it. You continue to wish to simply construct the wall piece by piece and that is what we’re doing.”
And Hamilton expressed confidence that he doesn’t assume it can take him too lengthy to get comfy together with his new automotive.
“However I really feel like we have now began and constructed basis of belief between one another, the work and practices we have now,” he added.
“It would not really feel like it’ll be six months to learn the way the group operates. I really feel like we’re additional alongside than I’ve skilled previously.”
Being at Ferrari feels ‘pure’ for Lewis Hamilton
Hamilton has endured a troublesome few years at Mercedes, successful simply two races throughout three seasons in a interval that has seen him unable to contend for world championships.
The 40-year-old Briton’s struggles over one lap specifically have led some to query whether or not his peak could also be behind him, however the early indicators level to Hamilton being reinvigorated and having his perception again.
“The vitality that I’m receiving from the group, there’s magic right here,” Hamilton advised media together with Crash.internet. “It’s going to nonetheless take a variety of laborious work and grafting from completely everybody and everyone seems to be placing that in already to realize it.
“But it surely’s additionally about perception. Everybody right here goals of successful with Ferrari, each single particular person on this group. I do know I’m precisely the place I’m speculated to be. It feels pure, it feels proper.”
And Hamilton, who’s looking for a record-breaking eighth world title with Ferrari, boldly said that the group have all the pieces they should win a primary world championship since 2008.
“They’ve bought completely each ingredient they should win a world championship,” he added. “It’s nearly placing all of the items collectively.”
