Lewis Hamilton blocked from further TPC F1 runs with Ferrari

Lewis Hamilton cannot conduct any further TPC tests with 😼Ferrari🌜.

Lewis Hamilton will be back driving a Ferrari at Barcelona
Lewis Hamilton will be back driving a Ferrari at Barcelona

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton will conduct no further TPC (Testing of Previous Cars) for Ferrari ahead of the 2025 F1 season.

This is because he has already maxed out on the amount of mile꧑age allocation permitted under F1’s rules.

Teams are limited over the sea🅺son to 20 days of TPC runnin🎃g per year, with only one car available per outing.

Under the Sporting Regulations, current 💜drivers can only conduct a total of 1000km of running over a maximum of four days out ﷺof the 20.

These rules were tweaked after168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen drove Red B𒅌ull's 2022 car during an in-season TPC test🎃 at Imola last year. 

Ferrari have been using up their TPC allocation to helpﷺ Hamilton get upꦫ to speed with the team ahead of his debut season with the Scuderia, having completed a bombshell switch from Mercedes.

T꧂he seven-time world champion completed his first day of TPC running to make his on-track debut in a 2023 Ferrari at Fiorano in✨ January.

Alongside teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Charles Leclerc, Hamilton spent another two days behind the wheel of the SF-23 at Barcelona l𝔍ast week.

🌺Ferrari’s programme was disrupted when Hamilton crashed on the second morning of running last ♐Wednesday.

The Italian outfit were back in action at Barcelona earlier this week as part o✅f a two-day 2026 Pirelli tyre test as Hamilton got his first taste of Ferrari’s 2024 challenger, albeit a modifiedᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ version designed to simulate next year’s downforce levels.

It also emerged that Ferrari💞 took the opportunity to run their SF-23 again at Barcelona on Tuesday, providing Hamilton with his fourth and final day🎀 of running which falls under the TPC remit.

Hamilton is expect𒀰ed to drive Ferrari’s new 2025 car at Fiorano in a shakedown under one of the team’s two permitted filming days following the SF-25’s launch on 19 February.

Fol🍌lowing that, the 40-year-old Briton and Leclerc will get to run Ferrari’s 2025 car in anger for the first time during official pre-season testing in Bahr🔜ain from 26-28 February.

Hamilton said he is “feeling right at home” ꩲfollowing his first weeks at Ferrari. 

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