Lewis Hamilton gets first taste of another Ferrari F1 car in Barcelona

Another important day for Lewis Hamilton b𒅌ehind a Ferrari🍌 F1 car.

Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton was back behind a Ferrari F1 car on Tuesday a❀s his preparatio♑n for the 2025 season continued in Barcelona.

This time, Hamilton got the opportunity to drive Ferrari’s 2024 ch🌌allenger𒁃 - the SF-24.

The SF-24 narrowly missed out on the F1 constructors’ championship to McLaren, with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz winning five races in 2024.

On paper, the 2024 car was a significant upgrade on its predec🐭essor - the SF-23, which Hamilton drove last week.

The seven-time ⭕world champion crashed the 2023 car during his second day of running last week at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

However, Ferrari are involved in a Pirelli test, which is focused on next year🌌’s tyres, and they were forced to make an unusual set up change as a result. 

As per, to replicate 202⛄6’s rules, Hamilton’s Ferrari was set up with ex🎃tremely low levels of downforce.

This is uncommon for Barcelona, given traditionally teams would opt to run a lot more downfor✤ce during the actual season because of the nature of the corners.

Wit🐎h the 2026 rules expected to result in a 20 per cent loss in downforce, the set up tweak should give Pirelli better data as they continue with their tyre development.

Specific details of what happ꧃ened in the test have yet to be revealed by Pirelli, but it seems that for🅘 Hamilton, it’s gone a lot smoother than last week.

Leclerc makes up for lost ground

On the other side of the 🌺𒉰Ferrari garage, Leclerc was also in action, driving the SF-23.

This utilised some of his a🍸l💫located TPC (testing previous cars) mileage.

Leclerc misꦚsed out on c🍷rucial running last week following Hamilton’s shunt.

Ferrari weren’t the only team testing in Bar☂celona, with McLaren also assisting Pirelli witౠh their 2026 tyres.

Sky Sports Italy also r﷽eported that Alpine were presen꧒t at the Spanish circuit. 

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