The Ferrari driver denounces: “I will eliminate him”. He wants to avoid a repeat of Miami: “I prepared a set-up and then, once I tried it on the track, it didn’t work at all”
“From the next race I will change my approach, there is one aspect that is taking us in the wrong direction”. After an encouraging start to the season, Miami seemed to see last year’s Hamilton again: dull, on track as in the declarations, and incapable of fighting for the top positions. Of course, what compromised the Englishman’s race was the contact at the start with Franco Colapinto, which deprived Lewis of more than half a second of aerodynamic load, yet, according to the Ferrari driver, there seems to be something else.
“I WILL ELIMINATE HIM”
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“I’ll be honest, I think the simulator is taking me in the wrong direction, I’ll delete it,” he explained after qualifying in Florida, as reported by The Race. Words that weigh heavily in a Formula One where a large part of the weekend’s preparation passes through “virtual” laps and which also rekindle a certain concern on the issue of track-factory correlation, already the Achilles’ heel of the Prancing Horse in past years. “It’s all a matter of data comparison. We train a lot on the simulator, then we get to the track and everything is different.” A frustrating feeling, especially for those who have never hidden the fact that “I don’t like spending so much time driving in front of a screen at all”.
CHANGES
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But the picture, in truth, is not so negative. The sixth place in Miami, thanks to the penalty of his teammate Leclerc, allowed Hamilton to be the only driver, in addition to the Mercedes duo, to always position himself in the top seven at the finish line between races and sprints in 2026. And Lewis certainly has no intention of giving up now. “I want to change things,” he explains rather. “From the next race (Canada, ed.) I will adopt a different approach, because the way we are preparing the weekend at the moment doesn’t help me. We’ll see if there are any differences.”
WITHOUT SIMULATOR?
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Does Hamilton really intend to abandon the simulator? “I won’t go before Canada. I’ll have the various meetings with the team at the factory and everything that’s needed, but I don’t intend to use it for a while.” A strong decision, which however finds an explanation in the fact that the best result obtained by the Englishman this year, third place in China, arrived without the aid of virtual tests, given that the drivers did not have time to return to Maranello after the Australian GP. After all, Hamilton wants to avoid a new Miami: “I went to the simulator every week, I prepared a set-up and then, once I tried it on the track, it didn’t work at all. I don’t want the team’s hard work to be ruined by these things.” And then we go to Montreal without a simulator. Will it work?
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