Ferrari has made a vow to Lewis Hamilton within the wake of final weekend’s disastrous debut drive within the Australian Grand Prix.
Hamilton, who made the swap to Ferrari after 12 years with Mercedes, competed in his first race together with his new staff on Sunday (16 March), ending in tenth place.
The primary race of the brand new System One season noticed Lando Norris declare first on the rostrum, with Max Verstappen and George Russell in second and third respectively – whereas there was additionally a late change to fourth spot after a 5 second penalty for Kimi Antonelli was overturned.
Maybe the primary speaking level from the race at Albert Park in Melbourne was Hamilton’s heated change together with his new colleague, engineer Riccardo Adami, with the F1 legend seemingly pissed off with the drive-ability of the brand new automotive in addition to the differing climate predictions.
After the race, the 40-year-old race automotive driver told Sky Sports activities: “It was very difficult… It went so much worse than I assumed it could go, the automotive was actually onerous to drive right now. I’m grateful I saved it out of the wall, that’s the place it needed to go more often than not.
“Quite a bit to take [in], totally different energy unit within the moist, totally different driving and setup on the steering wheel. And the steering of how way more rain was coming… we missed out.
“The data I bought was that it was a brief bathe, and actual fast, and it was simply the final nook. However then extra got here.”
And Ferrari has now made a vow to the British driver after a relatively disappointing begin with the Italian racing staff.
Fred Vasseur, Ferrari’s staff principal, has stated that main enhancements will likely be made to the communication going forwards.
He stated: “It’s the primary race. The primary time we’ve to speak between the pit wall and the automotive. However we are able to do a greater job, to know one another a bit higher.
“It was not an incredible weekend for us. However let me deal with subsequent week [China], that we’ll need to be taught so much from this weekend as a result of we made errors.
“We have to enhance the communication and to know what Lewis is anticipating from that communication. It is solely in these sorts of conditions that we are able to be taught and be significantly better subsequent week.”
Hamilton’s new teammate, Charles Leclerc, completed forward of him in eighth spot, in what was undoubtedly a tricky begin to the season for the Ferrari staff.
The following race within the F1 season is the Chinese language Grand Prix in Shanghai and can happen from 21 to 23 March, 2025.
