Lewis Hamilton will fully embrace testing and simulatoꦐr commitments at Ferrari, it has been claimed.

Hamilton’s reputation as an F1 d༺river꧟ who doesn’t enjoy testing or work on the sim is unfair, the Crash F1 podcast was told.

While it’s true that he routinely does♔ not appear at the postseason F1 test, he will enter his new adventure at Ferrari willing to muck in.

“Across the board, not just on the simulator, he fully wants this from the glimmers that we’ve seen,” Lewis Larkam told the po𒅌dcast.

“Even the smaller things like the effoജrꦬts he’s made to start learning Italian, to help forge connections.

“It underlines how committed he isꦕ, how much he wants it to work.

“He’s been in the simu🐟lator, that process is underway. That will be crucial to how h🦋e goes at Ferrari, and how they develop a car that suits him and helps him.

“At Mercedes he was super comfortable and perhaps didn’t neꦚed the extra timꦆe.

“Now, he perhaps need to start from scratch."

'No major concern' about Lewis Hamilton's sim work

“I find it interesting the bond 𝕴he’s already made with the Tifosi. They adore him already. Around 1,500 fans lined the perimeter of his first test which is more than Sebastian Vettel or Fernando Alonso had.

“He has already forged that connection and he seems to be embedding himself, in thatꦚ sense. With th🦂e Tifosi and, more importantly, with the team itself.

“Hamilton has always said he hates testing 🔯- he always tried to get out of pos🎶tseason testing. But there’s never been a question about how he drives a team forwards.

“I believe he’llꦓ be fully rejuven⭕ated to make those gains.”

꧅Connor McDonagh added: “Other than last 🎉year, maybe, he was always the one trying to push the set-ups.

“He was in 𝕴the simulator, trying to turn Mercedes around.

“He’s not going to give up. He’s going to be fully com🐎mitted to the cause.

“There can be no major co♕ncern a🧔bout his contribution, in that regard.”

Lewis Larkam replied: “There were times last season when Hamilton dipped out. There was an elemeꦕnt of him just checking out.

“He knew Mercedes wouldn’t win races and certainly not the championship, and he knew that he was leaviꦚng.

“It was a strange dynamicℱ of the move being announced before he left.

“Perhaps there was an element of H🐽amilton easing off, whether it was subconscious or not.

“Now, goingܫ into this season, he will be completely on it.

“It will be more of a question 🎐of how quickly he’s up to speed.”