Lewis Hamilton has claimed that aligning his model with Ferrari was “much more highly effective” than he imagined.
The British driver made the blockbuster transfer to Ferrari initially of 2025 after a 12-year stint with Mercedes, throughout which he secured six of his seven drivers’ championships.
“I knew that aligning our manufacturers could be huge,” he admitted to Ferrari Journal. “However it nonetheless hits you and also you’re like, ‘That is much more highly effective than I imagined.’ It’s lovely and there have been loads of positives, though plenty of accountability and weight comes with it. Everybody expects to win right away however ‘Rome wasn’t inbuilt a day.’
“How lengthy did it take? We’ll need to look that up.”
When it was put to him that anybody who is aware of something about Formulation 1 would know that it takes time to regulate to a brand new group, Hamilton added: “And that’s not many individuals. Solely once you’re inside a group can you actually, really perceive the way it works and the way F1 works. You possibly can’t think about how the machine actually operates in any other case.
“I’ve been in F1 for therefore lengthy, however after I got here to this group it actually was totally different once more. So I don’t blame folks for not understanding. All I can do is proceed to concentrate on the issues that I can management. How I put together, and work with the group. How I present up every day and keep constructive.”
Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari
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Since becoming a member of Ferrari, Hamilton has labored to regulate to the group. He presently sits sixth within the drivers’ standings with 146 factors, behind his team-mate Charles Leclerc in fifth with 210 factors.
The seven-time champion secured his first dash race win for the Maranello outfit in China and his greatest grand prix end to date is fourth in Emilia Romagna, Austria, British and United States Grands Prix.
Ferrari presently sits second within the constructors’ championship with 356 factors with Mercedes carefully behind in third with 355 factors.
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