Lewis Hamilton has crashed his Ferrari in the course of the workforce’s pre-season testing programme in Spain.
The seven-time champion was unharmed after dropping management of the workforce’s 2023 automobile on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on Wednesday.
Ferrari declined to touch upon the incident, which occurred on Hamilton’s second day of working on the Spanish monitor, the place he’s sharing the automobile with team-mate Charles Leclerc.
The incident occurred as Ferrari search to embed Hamilton into the workforce as successfully as potential earlier than the beginning of the season on the Australian Grand Prix on 14-16 March.
Ferrari regard the crash as nothing irregular as Hamilton learns the traits of an unfamiliar automobile after 12 years with Mercedes, inside the important restrictions imposed on testing in F1.
Ferrari are working a restricted programme within the 2023 automobile, the newest mannequin Hamilton is allowed to drive.
F1’s testing restrictions dictate that present race drivers can full a most of 1,000km (621 miles) of what’s often called TPC (testing of earlier vehicles) working.
Hamilton accomplished 30 laps on the workforce’s Fiorano check monitor on 22 January earlier than he and Leclerc moved on to this week’s three days of working at Barcelona, residence of the Spanish Grand Prix.
Ferrari are giving no particulars of the check, the place Hamilton is studying Ferrari’s procedures and dealing strategies and constructing an understanding with race engineer Riccardo Adami and the remainder of the engineering group.
Ferrari will launch their 2025 automobile at Fiorano on 19 February, the day after F1’s season launch occasion on the O2 in London.
Ferrari will give Hamilton additional testing miles earlier than the launch in a Pirelli-run tyre check.
The workforce will run for 2 days subsequent week, additionally at Barcelona, on 4-5 February in a 2025 automobile modified to mirror the impact of the brand new laws being launched for 2026.
McLaren are conducting an analogous Pirelli check at Paul Ricard in France this week because the Italian firm seeks to outline its 2026 product.
