Lewis Hamilton says Ferrari have “completely each ingredient to win” because the group launched the automotive he hopes will take him to an eighth world title.
Hamilton and team-mate Charles Leclerc did an preliminary take a look at of the SF-25 automotive at Ferrari’s Fiorano take a look at monitor on Wednesday.
Hamilton informed BBC Sport in an unique interview that he “could not actually say an excessive amount of” in regards to the automotive however that it “appears like a automotive I get on properly with”.
The previous Mercedes driver added: “From seeing the eagerness, every thing underneath one roof, which I’ve by no means skilled earlier than, this group has completely each ingredient to win.
“However we’re additionally conscious we have now to proceed to work. We now have to enhance and elevate in every single place – not in every single place however in sure areas, and I’ve little question that we are able to try this.”
Hamilton, who began work acclimatising to Ferrari final month, is staying on the manufacturing unit in his motorhome through the week, so he might be embedded with the group as a lot as potential.
He mentioned: “I’ve genuinely liked day by day I’ve been right here.
“It is a spot you genuinely do not actually wish to depart within the day. Every thing’s right here. Even my motorhome is right here so I do not ever depart.”
Hamilton, 40, has pushed the group’s 2023 and 2024 vehicles briefly checks prior to now weeks, earlier than experiencing the 2025 automotive, which is able to now be shipped to Bahrain for subsequent week’s official F1 pre-season take a look at from 26-28 February.
The primary race of the season is the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on 14-16 March.
Hamilton mentioned: “[We are] getting every thing arrange so after we get to race one it isn’t hopefully the primary six months that you’re getting this tuned, you have already got them prepared.
“So we have now put an enormous quantity of labor into that, and likewise attempting to hurry up the method of attending to know one another and the way they wish to work and the way I wish to work.
“You possibly can’t actually short-cut that, you construct belief and relationships over time, as you recognize, However day by day’s been thrilling, I actually get up with pleasure day by day.”
He added: “What’s secret’s we by no means wish to get forward of ourselves. We do not know the place everybody else is. We all know all the opposite groups will probably be doing a terrific job as properly, so we’re simply retaining targeted on taking one step at a time.
“I’m nonetheless acclimatising to the Ferrari automotive. It’s a lot totally different to what I’ve lived with for the previous couple of years on this era of vehicles, but additionally controls and every thing.
“Over the past 10 years, I’ve been used to a sure manner of working and I’m nonetheless adapting to these issues.”
Ferrari group principal Frederic Vasseur mentioned Hamilton had “introduced a brand new power to the group” since becoming a member of.
Leclerc mentioned the automotive had given him no dangerous surprises on Wednesday and added he felt Hamilton was becoming a member of the group “on the proper time” due to the modifications Vasseur had made within the final two years.
“Fred has a really large energy at retaining the emotional degree of the group at an excellent degree,” Leclerc mentioned. “We now have been a lot extra strong on that previously years.
“Lewis becoming a member of the group has been an enormous enhance and has been wonderful in so many areas. I really feel just like the group may be very calm and clear in what’s the route to work in and never being affected by every thing occurring within the group.
“We had an excellent automotive however wanted extra efficiency, and that’s the place we targeted on this automotive. We targeted on small issues in each space.”
Hamilton mentioned of his new team-mate: “Charles may be very embedded on this group. He’s very quick and I’m utterly conscious of that.
“It isn’t going to be straightforward to beat him, however we’ll work collectively and have some nice races, I hope.”
