after winning his first race in red in Barcelona, Lewis Hamilton wanted to reveal an incident in Austria in January 2025 which marked his debut with Ferrari and perhaps caused that image that he was out of touch in the fight with Leclerc.
The seven-time champion has told what happened in a TPC test (cars from previous seasons) that was given after the premiere in Fiorano to be done in the style of the red cars. Everything was a little disaster. “It’s a private thing, but last year, During a test, I crashed into the wall with great force and injured a cervical disc.which reached the nerve“, he stated in the Ferrari hospitality.
“For a few For nine weeks I couldn’t do almost anything. I went to the chiropractor every day, did physical therapy daily. I couldn’t sleep. I took painkillers and they gave me injections. I did everything I could to try to fix it. So that’s basically what I was trying to live off of, which is not easy in the position you’re sitting in,” Lewis recalled.
Overcome the trance and with new generation cars, without the ground effect that always harmed his driving style, Hamilton is second in the World Championship, 41 points behind Antonelli, after a great improvement of parts in his car in Montmeló and waiting to release here an improved engine through the ADUO, that can give them what they were missing compared to Mercedes.
“I’m not thinking about the championship, I’m thinking about every race, about showing up and executing like we did last weekend. in the last race. Because the pit stops, the strategy… we are all synchronized and having that every weekend is the most important thing. I’m not thinking about what’s going to happen in 15 races, I’m thinking about tomorrow,” he said with the mentality of not making plans except for the next session.
Improvements, now in the Ferrari engine
“Every person on this team brings something valuable, and everyone is improving, trying harder than ever, even harder than before. We work more cohesively and united than ever, thanks to Fred’s great leadership“, he said about Vasseur, for whom he already raced at ART in 2006, where he was champion in GP2 before joining McLaren in F1.
“Is gratifying to see the improvements we ask for, to see them arrive in Barcelona and also here. They have worked a lot to take a step forward with the engine. It is not the definitive step, but it is a step forward, and that is what we have to continue doing, continue advancing step by step,” he concluded.
