Lewis Hamilton has shared particulars on his affect on Ferrari’s 2026 Formulation 1 challenger.
The 41-year-old driver joined the Maranello outfit in 2025 after a 12-year stint with Mercedes, which resulted in six of his seven drivers’ championship titles.
Whereas the Briton struggled to adapt to the brand new staff final 12 months, he has come again robust in 2026 and claimed his first podium end with Ferrari on the Chinese language Grand Prix.
Throughout an interview with F1 forward of the Japanese Grand Prix, Hamilton detailed his involvement with the staff’s 2026 F1 automobile.
“It actually has,” Hamilton stated when requested about his constructive begin to the season.
“It began out as a very good 12 months, and the vitality throughout the staff and simply how we’re all working collectively, it has been actually, actually constructive.
“I am having fun with driving the brand new automobile, and it is a automobile that I received to play a heavy function in serving to develop final 12 months via the simulator working. So, it is good to see among the issues that I requested for come via within the design of the automobile and get to really feel them and really feel them positively.”
Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari
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He added about his changes to the Fred Vasseur-led staff: “It is an enormous distinction, and it is an enormous endeavor. I feel folks, after they watch, they won’t perceive how massive it’s if you transfer to a brand new staff.
“You’ll be able to arrive and bounce right into a cockpit, however studying the brand new instruments, significantly a distinct tradition and a distinct means that folks prefer to work and adopting that into the way in which you prefer to work. After which if you happen to have a look at final 12 months, for instance, it was the tip of an period of automobiles, and we did not develop via the 12 months.
“So we have been form of caught with what we had which finally wasn’t adequate for us to compete for wins, however we took so many learnings via that final 12 months as a staff and we’re making use of these to this 12 months and it is simply began off so significantly better.”
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