Lewis Hamilton pinpoints major Ferrari difference to Mercedes?<\/p>\n
Lewis Hamilton has revealed further details about the scale of adjustment he is going through after moving to Ferrari from Mercedes.<\/p>\n
After 12 seasons with the Brackley squad, Hamilton left to join Maranello for 2025, with one of the biggest problems he was facing being getting used to a Ferrari power unit having only ever run a Mercedes unit, even in his spell with McLaren between 2007 and 2012.<\/p>\n
Hamilton had already vocal amid his struggles to adapt to the SF-25 that engine braking was something he was struggling with, having never run it at Mercedes, as the seven-time champion, whose best grand prix result this season is fourth at Imola, revealed another key factor working against him.<\/p>\n
“It is hard to explain, it is just the characteristics through the corner, the corner balance, the ride height, a lot is different,” Hamilton explained when asked about the difficulties he is facing by RacingNews365.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n “How soft the car is, when I was at Mercedes, the car was very stiff, we were running quite stiff and low to get the downforce, and everything is different.\u00a0<\/p>\n “The cambers, everything is different, the way the engine behaves, the engine braking, all these things are different, and I’ve never had to use engine braking before.\u00a0<\/p>\n “All these different components get thrown in, and it takes a bit of time to get used to it, but I am enjoying getting used to it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton pinpoints major Ferrari difference to Mercedes? Lewis Hamilton has revealed further details about the scale of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[859,4199,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,4200,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-166840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-formula1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motorsport","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114646143749412837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}