{"id":24623,"date":"2025-01-03T16:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T16:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/formula-1-lewis-hamilton-could-not-be-more-excited-as-ferrari-career-starts\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T16:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T16:34:21","slug":"formula-1-lewis-hamilton-could-not-be-more-excited-as-ferrari-career-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/formula-1-lewis-hamilton-could-not-be-more-excited-as-ferrari-career-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1: Lewis Hamilton ‘could not be more excited’ as Ferrari career starts"},"content":{"rendered":"


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He joins Ferrari on the eve of his 40th birthday on 7 January as team-mate to Charles Leclerc in what many in the sport regard as the strongest driver line-up on the grid.<\/p>\n

Ferrari finished 2024 on a high, narrowly missing out on beating McLaren to the constructors’ championship.<\/p>\n

Leclerc scored more points than any driver – and Ferrari more than any rival team – from the Dutch Grand Prix, the race after the sport’s summer break, to the end of the season.<\/p>\n

Hamilton has a short but intense period to adapt to his new team before the start of the season in Melbourne, Australia on 14-16 March.<\/p>\n

Ferrari have given few details of their plans for Hamilton, but he will visit the factory, drive the simulator, and do some days in a 2023 car, activities aimed at getting used to the new team and the way the car is operated.<\/p>\n

The 2025 Ferrari will be launched on 19 February, one day after F1’s first official season launch at the O2 in London.<\/p>\n

The official pre-season test days will be on 26-28 February in Bahrain, with Hamilton and Leclerc dividing their time in the new car equally.<\/p>\n

Team principal Frederic Vasseur said at Ferrari’s official Christmas lunch last month<\/a> that Hamilton’s first six weeks with the team were “critical”.<\/p>\n

“It is not easy but he is coming with his own experience,” Vasseur said. “But he is not the rookie of the year, I am not worried at all about this. It is also the continuity of the previous regulations so we have some reference. I am not worried but it is true it is a challenge.”<\/p>\n

Vasseur expects 2025 to be a close battle for the championship between Ferrari, McLaren, Red Bull and Mercedes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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