Lewis Hamilton crashed throughout his third outing for Ferrari throughout the workforce’s non-public take a look at working in Barcelona.
Sky Sports activities Information understands Hamilton was completely tremendous and that the incident was considered the type of regular scenario that may occur in such testing periods.
The crash occurred on Ferrari’s second of three days of working on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, the venue for the Spanish Grand Prix, with Hamilton sharing driving duties within the workforce’s 2023 automotive with new team-mate Charles Leclerc.
Leclerc was attributable to take over the automotive within the afternoon however didn’t run after Hamilton’s accident.
It was Hamilton’s third day within the SF-23 total following his eagerly-anticipated debut at Fiorano, Ferrari’s personal take a look at observe, final week the place he accomplished an preliminary 30 laps.
The checks in two-year outdated automobiles are permitting Hamilton to acclimatise to his new workforce’s programs, automobiles and dealing practices on the observe forward of his first season at F1’s most-famous workforce.
The exact particulars of Wednesday’s incident in Spain when Hamilton went off the observe are usually not at the moment recognized, with Ferrari not offering working updates on the behind-closed-doors three-day session.
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Hamilton in Ferrari pink – the most recent footage
Hamilton started his week within the SF-23 in Barcelona on Tuesday afternoon after Leclerc had first pushed the automotive throughout the morning, with Ferrari offering recent pictures of the seven-time world champion of their well-known colors each on observe and dealing with the workforce’s engineers. (All footage courtesy of Scuderia Ferrari).
Ferrari’s January testing with Hamilton defined
Ferrari’s new 2025 automotive continues to be in improvement forward of its launch (February 19) and pre-season testing (February 26-28), however F1’s sporting rules permit for the Testing of Earlier Vehicles (TPC), beneath sure restrictions, with groups this yr capable of run their challengers from 2023, 2022 or 2021 exterior of race weekends and official 2025 testing.
The Scuderia have unsurprisingly opted to finish their early January working with the latest automotive allowed, the 2023 SF-23.
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Followers erupt in cheers and chants as Lewis Hamilton arrives on the observe for his first take a look at session with Ferrari.
However F1’s rules solely permit 4 of a workforce’s whole TPC days for a yr (20) to be with present race drivers.
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Sky Sports activities’ Craig Slater heads to Maranello to seize the historic day that Tifosi welcomes Lewis Hamilton for his first take a look at as a Ferrari driver.
However there’ll nonetheless be alternatives for the pair to get on observe earlier than Ferrari’s 2025 automotive is launched, with Pirelli take a look at days for 2026 tyre improvement in 2024 mule automobiles additionally happening over the subsequent month with sure groups. Hamilton is once more set to function at Barcelona in such a tyre take a look at subsequent week.
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