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2025-01-29 14:33:00
Hamilton, F1’s most profitable driver of all-time, had the accident whereas testing a 2023-specification automobile in Spain.
Lewis Hamilton crashed on the second day of testing a 2023 Ferrari System One automobile at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya.
The seven-times world champion, who had a primary check run along with his new staff at their Fiorano observe final week and remains to be adapting to his new environment after leaving Mercedes, was unharmed within the crash on Wednesday.
The accident occurred when Hamilton misplaced management of his automobile within the closing a part of the circuit, crashed right into a barrier and broken the suspension and bodywork, Sky Italy reported.
Hamilton, 40, is getting in some laps behind closed doorways with teammate Charles Leclerc underneath guidelines that enable a restricted quantity of observe mileage in older F1 vehicles.
F1 tightly restricts groups from testing current-specification vehicles, however the guidelines are looser for older fashions just like the SF-23 that Hamilton drove on Wednesday in Spain. Official preseason testing for the brand new season’s vehicles begins in Bahrain on February 26 and can proceed until February 28.
Hamilton will accomplice with Charles Leclerc at Ferrari, who’ve been with out a driver’s title since 2007, however hope to alter that within the 2025 season, which begins with the Australian Grand Prix, scheduled from March 14 to 16.
