Lewis Hamilton gave a constructive verdict on his first two days of testing Ferrari’s new automobile for the upcoming season.
“I believe it’s a bit early to say however I’m actually having fun with the automobile,” he informed media on the Bahrain International Circuit at this time.
He mentioned he was “slowly bonding” with the automobile, following his first change of groups in 12 years. “Yesterday was a so-so day, it was okay. However we received by all of our run plan.
“We’re testing a bunch of issues, so I’m not doing set-up adjustments or directing the place I need the automobile to go. We’re simply getting by the motions.
“Immediately was a bit extra of attending to discover a little bit of my interplay with my engineer. However to this point I actually take pleasure in driving this automobile.”
Hamilton ended at this time’s check second-fastest, three-hundredths of a second slower than Carlos Sainz Jnr – the driving force he changed at Ferrari, who now drives for Williams.
The previous Mercedes driver says he’s nonetheless adjusting to the completely different terminology Ferrari use to confer with some components of their automobile.
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“The impact is barely completely different and the names they’ve are completely different,” he mentioned, “however ‘roll’ remains to be ‘roll’ and ‘anti-roll bar’ remains to be ‘anti-roll bar’.
“A number of the different components of the geometry, there are completely different phrases for it. So I’ve received it on my pc and I’m learning it every day and evening to verify I perceive once they discuss these completely different elements.
“I’ve completed 12 years in one other place the place we talked about the identical factor on a regular basis. So I used to be used to it, I knew precisely what they’re which means.
“However each time [Ferrari] point out [something] in a debrief I’m like: ‘What half is that this? Okay, it’s this half.’ It’s a part of the educational course of and that’s what makes it thrilling, as a result of it’s all new. I’m loving that newness.”
Over the primary two days of the check, Ferrari ran Hamilton within the first session and his crew mate in Charles Leclerc the second. They are going to swap the operating order for the ultimate day, when Hamilton is because of full a race and qualifying simulation.
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