First images emerge as Hamilton makes Ferrari F1 debut at Fiorano

Lewis Hamilton has launched into his first on-track outing along with his new Ferrari group, turning the wheel of a 2022 F1 automobile on the group’s Fiorano take a look at monitor.

Shortly after 9am native time in Italy, seven-time world champion Hamilton took the wheel of the F1-75 on a foggy Wednesday morning as hordes of Italian tifosi flocked to Ferrari’s proprietary take a look at venue in Maranello to identify a glimpse of their new hero.

Donned in a crimson total and a vibrant yellow helmet, Hamilton set his first laps of a filming day, and might be later joined by Charles Leclerc as Ferrari captures a full day of content material from Hamilton’s first driving day.

The Briton has been in Maranello all week to satisfy his new group, visiting Ferrari founder Enzo Ferrari’s well-known mansion on Monday, which produced an immediate basic picture of Hamilton posing in entrance of the home in his inimitable sartorial type.

Hamilton spent the day assembly group principal Fred Vasseur and chief government Benedetto Vigna, in addition to Enzo Ferrari’s son Piero.

The 40-year-old additionally acquired a seat made and labored by way of driving procedures within the Italian group’s simulator.

Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari

Picture by: Davide Cavazza

“There are some days that you already know you’ll bear in mind without end and immediately, my first as a Ferrari driver, is a kind of days,” Hamilton wrote in an Instagram put up on Monday. “I’ve been fortunate sufficient to have achieved issues in my profession I by no means thought doable, however a part of me has at all times held on to that dream of racing in crimson. I couldn’t be happier to understand that dream immediately.

“In the present day we begin a brand new period within the historical past of this iconic group, and I can’t wait to see what story we’ll write collectively.”

Wednesday morning’s outing is Hamilton’s first session along with his new race engineer Riccardo Adami, with Hamilton’s long-time ally Peter Bonnington staying put at Mercedes.

However Hamilton might be re-united along with his former physio Angela Cullen, who has joined the Briton’s Challenge 44 firm after two years away.