is to keep away from the simulator within the build-up to the in pursuit of larger readability together with his automobile on the monitor.
The Briton insists the simulator misled him on his Ferrari setup earlier than racing in Miami final weekend.
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And with a seventh place within the dash race backed up by sixth within the grand prix, together with a set-back from a collision with Franco Colapinto on the opening lap, Hamilton is making a change seeking solutions to ignite his marketing campaign.
However regardless of frequent observe for drivers to spend many hours within the simulator earlier than races to evaluate setup choices, Hamilton maintains the digital setup didn’t translate to the true life Miami Worldwide Autodrome.
“I will have a unique strategy within the subsequent race as a result of the best way we’re making ready in the meanwhile will not be serving to, and so we’ll see how that goes for the subsequent race,” Hamilton stated.
“In the end it is all the time correlation, however we go on it after which we get to the monitor and the automobile feels totally different when it will get on monitor.”
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As an alternative of spending appreciable time within the simulator, Hamilton hopes to speak together with his engineers at Ferrari’s manufacturing unit in Maranello to realize a greater understanding of what he’s coping with earlier than taking to the monitor.
” I do not like simulators generally, however I sit on the simulator each week on the construct as much as this race, engaged on correlation always and also you go on it, you put together for the monitor, you drive it and also you get the automobile setup to a sure place and you then come to the monitor and that arrange does not work,” he defined.
“And on the dash weekend, for instance, you’ve got solely received observe one, you do not actually wish to veer off out of your setup too far, like with a giant suspension change and so that you stick with it and you then make a change going to qualifying and you then’ve solely received six laps to get on high of it.
Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton through the 2026 Miami Grand Prix (PA)
“In a super world I ought to have began the place Charles [Leclerc] was at the start of the weekend on P1 and I believe we might have simply had a stronger weekend from there.
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“So I am not going to go on the simulator between now and the subsequent race. I am going to nonetheless go and maintain conferences on the manufacturing unit and stuff, however I am simply going to again away from it for slightly bit and see. As a result of once we went to China I had the most effective weekend with out sim.”
Hamilton sits fifth within the drivers standings, eight factors behind his teammate Charles Leclerc and 49 factors off chief Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes.
