Lewis Hamilton sees key insights from SF-26 tests

After Thursday successful Barcelona, ​​Lewis Hamilton said that Ferrari managed to extract important accusation from the archetypal superior kilometers of the caller SF-26 car during closed tests. The time passed with unchangeable driving and a ample fig of laps, and the Brit pointed retired that the squad has already recovered guidelines that volition assistance them successful their further work, particularly successful knowing the behaviour of cars and tires according to the caller rules.

Ferrari tested successful Barcelona according to a cautiously designed plan. Thursday was Hamilton's archetypal due time of adust driving, aft rainfall disrupted the programme connected Tuesday. The seven-time satellite champion did a afloat greeting stint and collected capable information for investigation and comparisons.

The seven-time champion drove 87 laps, which delighted him considering the "miserable rainy conditions" earlier successful the week. Asked if Ferrari was wherever helium expected it to beryllium astatine this stage, Hamilton said: “Um, I don’t know, I deliberation we probably… Of course, we were hoping to travel and have… When you travel to a test, you ever privation to bash a batch of laps and I did 85 laps this morning, which is incredible. And that’s wholly down to each the radical successful the mill who person done a large occupation to marque definite the car is truly reliable truthful far.”

“Last twelvemonth we had a mediocre commencement to testing, truthful with a full caller acceptable of rules this is amended than before. So hopefully that continues.”

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Hamilton besides explained what the greeting thrust was like: “It was large to get the accidental to thrust and recognize the tyres. We drove C2 and C1, it was truthful acold the tyres weren’t moving properly, but we went done the programme and got an knowing of wherever the car is astatine the infinitesimal and wherever we request to improve.”

Charles Leclerc aboriginal took implicit the SF-26 arsenic Hamilton followed from the pits, with some drivers owed to instrumentality to the way again connected Friday. "For us, the extremity is to stitchery arsenic overmuch mileage and cognition arsenic imaginable astir the engine, car and aerodynamics," added the Briton. "We went done the programme this greeting and recovered immoderate important things. Charles does a antithetic acceptable successful the afternoon, which is great. At the extremity of the time we some get unneurotic and speech astir the problems, positives and negatives. Then we marque a program for tomorrow, the past day. We already person bully data, it's a substance of knowing and making wide decisions for further investigating earlier Bahrain."