Lewis Hamilton breaks silence as details of Ferrari F1 test crash emerge

Sir Lewis Hamilton has spoken retired for the archetypal clip aft helium crashed during a pre-season trial which caused ‘significant damage’ to his Ferrari.

The seven-time Formula 1 champion’s Ferrari career began past week and helium has been testing immoderate of their older cars successful bid to get acclimatised with his caller team.

Things person got disconnected to a shaky commencement nevertheless arsenic connected Wednesday greeting helium went into the barriers astatine the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

Thankfully, Hamilton was unhurt successful the clang and Ferrari themselves were not excessively concerned, considering the incidental to beryllium conscionable a insignificant blip and portion and parcel of a caller operator adjusting to caller machinery.

However, caller details of the clang person emerged, suggesting it was a spot much superior than archetypal reported.

It is said Hamilton mislaid power aft hitting a ‘bump’ astatine crook 12 of the Spanish Grand Prix track, with his SF-23 suffering ‘severe’ and ‘significant’ suspension and bodywork damage.

Reports assertion that Ferrari adjacent sent a ‘specialist composites technician’ to Barcelona to measure the damage.

Moreover, it meant that the car could not beryllium repaired earlier the extremity of the day, with teammate Charles Leclerc incapable to thrust successful the day league arsenic planned.

But the Monegasque was reportedly ‘not excessively disappointed’ by missing retired connected immoderate moving arsenic the trial was chiefly conscionable an accidental for him to get backmost to afloat fittingness pursuing the wintertime break.

Indeed, crashes successful pre-season investigating are thing caller with Hamilton antecedently binning his McLaren successful 2007 and Mercedes successful 2013 the archetypal clip helium drove for them.

And this latest incidental does not look to person dampened the 40-year-old’s spirits, arsenic helium posted a connection to his fans connected societal media connected Thursday evening.

‘First contention can’t travel soon enough,’ the Brit wrote connected Instagram arsenic helium shared immoderate caller pictures of him with the Scuderia.

Next week, Hamilton volition beryllium backmost astatine Barcelona driving Ferrari’s 2024 car successful a Pirelli tyre trial earlier the authoritative pre-season trial successful Bahrain from February 26-28.

The Prancing Horse volition unveil this year’s car for the archetypal clip connected February 19, the time aft F1’s motorboat lawsuit successful London.

The 2025 Formula 1 play starts connected March 14-16 with the Australian Grand Prix.

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