Lewis Hamilton gets first taste of another Ferrari F1 car in Barcelona

Another important day for꧃ Lewis Hamilton behind a Ferrari F1 car.

Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton was back behind a Ferrari F1 car on Tuesday a💎s his 🌊preparation for the 2025 season continued in Barcelona.

This time, Hamilton got the opportunity to drive Ferrari’s 2ও024 challenger - the SF-24.

The SF-24 narrowly missed out on the F1 constructors’ championship to McLaren, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz winning five races in 2024.

On paper, the 2024 car was a significant upgrade on its pꦏredecessor - the SF-23, which Hamilton drove last week.

The seven-time world champion crashed the 2023 car during his second day of running last week at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalun🍃ya.

However, Ferrari are involved in a Pirelli test, which is focuse🦩d on next year’s tyres, and they were forced to make an unusual set up change as a result. 

As per, to replicate 2026’s rul𒀰es, Hamilton’s Ferrari was set up with extremely low levels of 🐼downforce.

This is uncommon for Barcelona, given traditionally teams would 𒈔opt to run a lot more downforce during the actual season because of the nature of the corners.

With the 2026 rules expected to result in a 20 per cent loss in downforce, the set up tweak should give Pirelli b♏etter data as they continue with their tyre development.

Specific details of what happened in the test have yet to be rev▨ealed by Pirelli, b🎉ut it seems that for Hamilton, it’s gone a lot smoother than last week.

Leclerc makes up for lost ground

On the ot🌜her side of the Ferrari garage, Leclerc was also in action, driving the SF-23.

This utilised some of his allocated TPC (testing pre🎃v🍬ious cars) mileage.

Leclerc missed out on cruci🐬al running last week following Hamilton’s shunt.

Ferrari weren’t the only 🐟team testing in Barce🍎lona, with McLaren also assisting Pirelli with their 2026 tyres.

Sky Sports Italy also reported that Alpine were present at the Spꩲanish circuit. 

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