Ted Kravitz believes 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc shouldn’t underestimate Lewis Hamilton’s race craft heading into their first F1 race as teammates at next weekend’s Australian 🅷G♌rand Prix.

The 2025 F1 season finally kic꧑ks off next weekend at Albert Park, with ꩲHamilton set to race for Ferrari for the first time in F1.

Hamiltওon has enjoyed an extensive testing programme ahead of the new season, with s⭕everal runs in older machinery.

Last week, all 10 F1 teams were present🙈 in Bahrain for official pre-season testing across three days.

Ferrari appear to be a step b✃🌠ehind McLaren in pure performance, but a true understanding of the pecking order will only become clear after qualifying in Melbourne.

Hamilton joins Ferrari on the back o꧒f his most disappointing season to date ღin F1, particularly in qualifying.

Hamilton only managed to out-qualify 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell four times across 24 races - making it just the second qualifying head-to-head defeat of his career after 2014 against 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nico Rosberg.

When previewing t🦂he new season, Kravitz assessed the teammate dynamic between Leclerc and Hamilton - and how that will impact the former.

“There is an unknown. Charles Leclerc has seen Lewis Hamilt꧙on close up over the last couple of mꦇonths,” Kravitz said.

“He’s understood how to drive the car. He’s understood seemingly hౠow Hamilton, who was saying he still has to learn exactly how every little tool that he has at his disposal in terms of differential change, brake balance adjustment or how to start the car with the clutch - things like that.

“It’s second nature to Leclerc, but Hamilton is still learning how Ferrari𝓡 likes to do those things in the car and the multitude of buttons they’ve got.

“If you could say that is a bit of an advantage on Leclerc’s side𝓀, maybe. Leclerc would underestimate Lewis Hamilton’s race craft at his peril. 

He knows not to underestimate Lewis. Lewis is at his best on a Sunday afternoon. So Leclerc is waiting to see what kind of teammate he’s going tಌo have in Australia.”

Are Ferrari on the back foot heading to Australia?

It wasn’t a seamless test for Ferrari in Bahrain, with Hamilto💮n unable to complete a race simulation on the final day of testin🐈g.

Hamil🎶ton’s final day was halted early after Ferrari found an “anomal🃏y” on the data.

For Leclerc, he managed to complete a full race simulation alongside 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who were circulating at the same time.

Leclerc was, 𒀰on average, 🍎around 0.5s slower than Norris across a full race distance.

While all the testing caveats remain due ജto the unusually cool track temperatures and uncertainty about which power modes were beᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚing used, McLaren look like they’re the favourites heading into the season-opener.