Ted Kravitz believes 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc shouldn’t underestimate Lewis Hamilton’s race craft heading into their first F1 race as teammates at next weeken🔯d’s Aus♍tralian Grand Prix.

The 2025 F1 season finally kicks off next weekend at Albert Park, with Hamilton setಞ to race for Ferrari for the first time in F1.

Hamilton has enjoyed an extens🥂ive testing programme ahead of the new season, with several runs in older machinery.

Last wꦇ𓆏eek, all 10 F1 teams were present in Bahrain for official pre-season testing across three days.

Ferrari appear to be a step behind McLaren in pure performance, but a true understandin🐲g of the pecking order will only become clear after qualifying in Melbourne.

Hamilton joins Ferrari on t🃏he back of his most disappoin🐠ting season to date in F1, particularly in qualifying.

Hamilton only managed to out-qualify 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell four times across 24 races - making it just the second qualifying head-to-head defeat of his career after 2014 against 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Rosberg.

When previewing the new season, Kravitz a🐎sse꧟ssed the teammate dynamic between Leclerc and Hamilton - and how that will impact the former.

“There is an unknown. Charles Lec💧lerc has🐻 seen Lewis Hamilton close up over the last couple of months,” Kravitz said.

“He’s understood how to drive the car. He’s understood seemingly how Hamilton, who was saying he still has to learn exactly how every little tool that he has at his disposal in te𝓰rms of differential change, brake balance adjustment or how to start the car with the clutch - things like that.

“It’s second nature to Lec🐎lerc, but Hamilton is still learning how Ferrari 💙likes to do those things in the car and the multitude of buttons they’ve got.

“If you could say that is a bit of an advantage on Lecle♊rc’s side, maybe. Leclerc would underestimate Lewis Hamilton’s race craft at his peril. 

He knows not to underestimate Lewis. Lewis is at his best on a Sunday ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚafternoon. So Leclerc is waiting to see what kind of teammate he’s going to have in Australia.”

Are Ferrari on the back foot heading to Australia?

It wasn’t a seam𝄹less test for Ferrari in Bahrain, with Hamilton unable to complete a race simulation on the final day of testing.

Hamilton’s final day was halted early aft♈er Ferrari found an “anomaly” on the data.

For Leclerc, he managed to complete a full race simulation alongside 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who were circulating at the same time.

Leclerc was, on average, around 0.5s slower than Norris across a🌼 full race distance.

While all the tes𝔉ting caveats remain due to the unusually cool track temperatures and uncertainty about which power modes were being used, McLaren look like they’re the favourites heading into the season-opener.