Lewis Hamilton is testing a brand new rear suspension on this yr’s Ferrari F1 automobile in Mugello in the present day.
Hamilton, in addition to teammate Charles Leclerc, will drive the SF-25 automobile across the Italian circuit on Thursday, along with a session on Wednesday, as each drivers eye a breakthrough in automobile efficiency on the midway stage of the 2025 season.
Each will take to the cockpit on Thursday, with a complete of 200km of working allowed as per F1’s guidelines as a part of a ‘filming day’.
Ferrari hope that the brand new suspension, alongside a brand new flooring improve at spherical 11 in Austria, will extract extra efficiency from a automobile which is but to win a race this yr.
The Scuderia imagine the brand new suspension will assist the automobile be much less delicate to varied journey heights, opening up extra set-up choices for qualifying and the race.
The additional advantage of this week’s testing session comes forward of subsequent week’s Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps, which can also be a dash occasion, that means there will likely be only one observe session.
Hamilton is but to complete on the rostrum in a grand prix, with three best-place finishes of fourth, together with at his house race final day trip in Silverstone.
Leclerc, in the meantime, has completed on the rostrum 4 occasions however is but to style victory. Neither driver has recorded a pole place, both. The three groups to have gained race up to now this season are McLaren, Pink Bull and Mercedes.
Hamilton, in his first season at Ferrari since his transfer from Mercedes, is presently sixth within the drivers’ standings, a whopping 131 factors behind championship chief Oscar Piastri.
Leclerc is one spot, and 16 factors, forward of Hamilton in fifth.
Each Hamilton (5 occasions) and Leclerc (as soon as) have gained at Spa-Francorchamps, the longest observe on the 24-race calendar.
Hamilton gained final yr’s race after George Russell, who gained the race on-track, was disqualified post-race.
