Happy English: “The first race cannot arrive early enough”. During the tests he has already found the right braking sensations
The crazy desire to run and win behind Ferrari’s steering wheel. This tests Lewis Hamilton waiting for the first game of the World Cup, which will mark the beginning of his new pilot life of the Cavallino after the seven titles won with McLaren and Mercedes. The English champion is 40 years old, but is experiencing the eve of the championship that will open on March 16 in Melbourne with the impatience of a boy at his debut. “The first race cannot arrive early enough,” he wrote in a message on social media to explain the feeling. On Wednesday’s impact, during the second day of testing of the SF-23 driving on the Spanish circuit of Montmelò, it was archived by the team as “a normal accident accident”. And Hamilton does not seem worried at all.
Hamilton notebook
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Among the published photos, there is a very curious one: Lewis takes notes on a notebook, while he is still sitting in the cockpit of the single -seater, between one session and the other on the track. Image that symbolizes the methods and attention to every detail with which he faced the tests in Spain and also the first release in red on the private track of Fiorano. The Ferrari tests ended yesterday with Antonio Giovinazzi and the young Dino Beganovic called to extra work after that done by Hamilton and Charles Leclerc in previous days. Meanwhile, some interesting indiscretions on the adaptation of Lewis to Ferrari transpire. Net of the accident, the seven -time world champion has in fact managed to become familiar with the procedures that manage the departure and the methods of detachment of the clutch, an important step in view of the first GPs. He also got used to Ferrari’s braking system, with records other than those he used to Mercedes. It seems that Lewis eventually reported very positive impressions to engineers. The Englishman praised the performance of the plant, provided by Brembo, and found it suitable for its driving style, for the modular of the pedal pressure. Lewis is one of the pilots who brake later and stronger, bringing a lot of speed into the curve. A feature that on paper adapts less to the “soil effect” cars of this generation, compared to previous ones, as has observed its former Team Principal Toto Wolff. But perhaps Hamilton could find the best conditions in Ferrari. During the test in Spain, Lewis was also able to try the changes to the pedal he had asked for after the day in Fiorano, finding them satisfactory. So the detail will be transferred to the new 2025 car, which will be called SF-25 and will be revealed on February 19th. Finally, at Montmelò it was possible to evaluate different modes of the power unit on the long straight, also trying various clutch and transmission (differential) management maps.
Ferrari 2025-26
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In the meantime, in Maranello (and not only) the study of car 2026 has already begun, whose design will come alive before summer. Although the regulation will change radically, with the adoption of most electrified and active aerodynamics, the engineers have already found several points of contact with the current single -seater. Just McLaren and Ferrari, the teams that leave this year in the struggle for the title, would have seen a connection between contexts that appeared light years. Rob Marshall’s statements, McLaren technical director, suggest that Woking have designed a 2025 machine very extreme with a view to piercing some ideas on that of 2026. Ferrari would have done the same by adopting the front suspension of “Pull Rod’s scheme “, With a full -bodied technical effort. The dynamic balance will be the key to making the most of active aerodynamics, therefore developing concepts that go in that direction, represents a technical investment that aims to improve performance with an intelligent management of resources, starting with the time dedicated to research. Only one month is missing from the official tests in Bahrain and a little more at the start of the World Cup, for this reason the work done by Ferrari at Montmelò has a significant meaning.
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