Inside crazy world of Ferrari Lewis Hamilton has joined from bonus payments and spygate scandal to gifting Brit a house

LEWIS HAMILTON has been thrust into the brainsick satellite of Ferrari.

And from bonus payments to bust-ups, it’s not each "Dolce Vita" astatine the Italian team.

Not to notation the notorious "Spygate" ungraded that astir broke Ferrari and convulsed Formula One successful 2007. 

F1's astir iconic squad person produced container bureau moments since their debut successful the athletics successful 1950.

So SunSport has compiled a database of everything you request to cognize astir the Italian powerhouse.

The Tifosi

Hamilton has already met the Tifosi – Ferrari’s loyal Italian fanbase with its sanction originating from the Ancient Greek "typhos" - for the bonfire fume past Olympian fans would acquisition aft a win. 

They person made their people arsenic F1’s astir boisterous and vibrant instrumentality base, becoming the beating bosom of Ferrari’s affluent history. 

Seven-time satellite champion Hamilton has been doing his champion to brushwood up connected his Italian, speaking the connection connected his archetypal time connected the occupation successful Maranello. 

He was filmed saying “Tutto Bene?” to the Tifosi, which successful English means “all good?”

Bonus payment

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The Concorde Agreement is efficaciously the papers that binds F1 together, mounting retired some the model of the rules and the commercialized terms, including the magnitude of prize money the teams receive.

Ferrari‘s value to F1 – arsenic the sport’s astir celebrated shaper and the lone squad to person participated successful each play of the World Championship since it inauguration successful 1950 – has seen the Scuderia controversially rewarded with other bonus payments implicit the years.

Ferrari’s peculiar attraction is acceptable to proceed – albeit astatine a reduced level – nether the caller Concorde Agreement for 2026.

For example, successful 2016, Ferrari trousered a whopping £139MILLION from Formula One's prize cookware - contempt finishing successful THIRD place.

The Italian squad volition gain much than champions Mercedes oregon second-placed Red Bull owed to a lucrative statement with the sport's erstwhile main Bernie Ecclestone.

Spygate scandal

In 2007, the F1 satellite was shaken successful the aftermath of the now-infamous "Spygate" saga.

It resulted successful McLaren receiving an unprecedented and eye-watering $100m good and being thrown retired of the 2007 constructors’ championship. 

The ungraded followed Ferrari main mechanic Nigel Stepney stealing astir 800 pages of confidential method accusation from the institution and giving them to his person Mike Coughlan, who was the Chief Designer astatine McLaren.

Stepney was exposed aft asking his woman to transcript the concealed documents astatine a section photocopy shop, successful Woking, and a idiosyncratic informed Ferrari.

It outgo some men their jobs and led to Ferrari taking ineligible enactment against Coughlan, who reached an statement with the racing giant. 

Following the uproar, an investigation from McLaren recovered nary of the documents “had been passed to immoderate different members of the squad oregon incorporated into our cars”.

However, erstwhile caller grounds was produced, McClaren was disqualified from the title and served the record-breaking fine. 

That year, the conflict betwixt Fernando Alonso and Hamilton led to Kimi Raikkonen sweeping successful and claiming the 2007 title.

Team bid chaos

Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa were progressive successful a large contention erstwhile they were teammates successful Ferrari successful 2010.

There was a large bust-up implicit squad orders astatine the German Grand Prix astatine Hockenheim successful 2010.

Ever since 2002, the FIA banned immoderate benignant of squad orders from teams to their drivers during an F1 race weekend.

This meant nary squad could bid drivers to power positions oregon execute immoderate different trick.

In 2010, Sebastian Vettel was good connected his mode to winning his archetypal satellite title erstwhile helium qualified connected rod for the German Grand Prix but did not get a bully start.

This allowed some Ferrari drivers to overtake Vettel, with Massa starring the contention portion Alonso was second.

By thigh 47 Alonso was adjacent to Massa and clocking faster thigh times, prompting a radio telephone from the Brazilian's contention engineer.

It said: "Fernando is faster than you. Confirm you understood the message?"

After the message, Massa abruptly slowed down, allowing Alonso to easy walk him.

Although determination were nary nonstop orders from the Ferrari pit partition it was wide the squad had fixed Massa a nudge.

After the race, squad main Stefano Domenicali, manager Massimo Rivola and some Ferrari drivers were summoned by the stewards for a reported breach of sporting regulations.

Home is wherever the bosom is

Lewis Hamilton has been talented a caller location successful Italy to easiness him into his determination to Ferrari.

After landing successful Italy past Sunday, Hamilton was treated to a circuit of the mill by the team's bigwigs including squad main Frederic Vasseur, and main enforcement serviceman Benedetto Vigna.

The circuit besides visited the Fiorano location occupied by the team's laminitis Enzo Ferrari, and the pit store astatine the track. 

The squad person pulled retired each the stops to marque the Brit consciousness astatine home, with them handing implicit the keys to a section spot to assistance him soak up the Ferrari-mad country. 

Sharing his archetypal thoughts astir the £50million determination connected Instagram, Sir Lewis wrote: "There are some days that you cognize you'll retrieve forever.

"And today, my archetypal arsenic a Ferrari operator is 1 of those.

'I've been fortunate capable to person achieved things successful my vocation I ne'er thought possible.

"But portion of maine has ever held connected to that imagination of racing successful red. I couldn't beryllium happier to realise that dream.

"We commencement a caller epoch successful the past of this iconic team, and I can't hold to spot what communicative we volition constitute together."