Lewis Hamilton continued preparations for his debut as a Ferrari grand prix driver by testing one of many crew’s vehicles on the Circuit de Catalunya at the moment.
The seven-times world champion drove a 2023-specification SF-23 chassis on the residence of the Spanish Grand Prix. He beforehand examined the automotive at Ferrari’s Fiorano take a look at monitor final week. The SF-23 was the one automotive to beat Purple Bull’s dominant RB19 to victory throughout the 2023 season.
Hamilton was joined by new crew mate Charles Leclerc, who additionally drove the automotive. Ferrari are anticipated to spend three days testing on the circuit as Hamilton adjusts to a brand new crew for the primary time since he joined Mercedes in 2013.
Components 1 groups are permitted to check chassis beneath the sequence’ Testing of Earlier Automobiles laws, offering they’re not less than two years outdated. Underneath revised guidelines launched this 12 months, groups might solely use a single automotive per day for a most of 9 hours, and may solely take a look at on tracks the sequence will race at this 12 months not less than 60 days earlier than its spherical is held. The Spanish Grand Prix will happen in June.
Ferrari are as a result of current their 2025 F1 automotive on February nineteenth. Testing for the brand new season will start one week later on the Bahrain Worldwide Circuit. Groups may have simply three days to run their new vehicles previous to the season-opening race in Australia the next month.
The Circuit de Catalunya was the common residence of F1 pre-season testing for a few years. Nonetheless it final held such a take a look at in 2022, when the sequence launched intensive modifications to its chassis laws. Since then F1 has at all times held its pre-season assessments in Bahrain.
Photos: Hamilton and Leclerc take a look at Ferrari SF-23 at Catalunya
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