Ferrari and Lewis Hamilton continue to write the beginning of their story together, which both parties are hopeful will end in Championship success.. After arriving in Maranello on Monday, acclaimed fans and international press, today is the fateful day when Hamilton drives a Ferrari for the first time.
The atmosphere on the streets of Maranello and around the Fiorano circuit has been electrifying since yesterday. Fans arrived at the circuit in the early hours of the morning to greet Hamilton and teammate Charles Leclerc.
Today’s run programme will see Hamilton drive both the SF-23 and the F1-75.
The day will also see the presence on the track of Charles Leclerc , in the afternoon, to also follow a canonical training program preparatory to the tests in Bahrain. A way to officially end the holidays and return to resume certain automatisms behind the wheel and with the team. It will be useful above all for Lewis Hamilton to start working with his new team, led by engineer Riccardo Adami , as well as familiarize himself with procedures and also a Ferrari Power Unit , which he has never driven. Every kilometer will be useful for the Englishman to better integrate into the new reality that has welcomed him.
These are the first historic images of Lewis Hamilton on the track with a Ferrari, followed closely by the large crowd that has been stationed around the Fiorano track and that has started to populate the ‘grandstands’ around the circuit since the early hours of the morning, around 6. It was 3 hours of waiting for the first fans who gathered around Fiorano before seeing Hamilton’s first historic lap on board a Ferrari.
At 9.17, the 7-time World Champion left the garage for a first outlap of his new ‘home circuit’ onboard the Ferrari SF-23. It was a short outlap before returning to the pits. Just over 10 minutes of rest and at 9.30 he returns to the track to start his first effective run.
Lewis Hamilton’s first run lasted 10 laps, after which he returned to the Fiorano box for a stop. His program today, however, has just begun.
The 7-time Champion’s debut is accompanied by a very English climate, as the team wait for slightly warmer temperatures before their next few runs. Fans at the circuit will also hope for improved conditions.
