{"id":180735,"date":"2025-06-13T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180735\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T09:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:31:09","slug":"how-lewis-hamilton-has-surprised-charles-leclerc-inside-and-outside-the-car-at-ferrari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180735\/","title":{"rendered":"How Lewis Hamilton has ‘surprised’ Charles Leclerc inside and outside the car at Ferrari"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Leclerc<\/a> has opened up on how Lewis Hamilton has \u201csurprised\u201d him both inside and outside the car in their time as team-mates at Ferrari to date in Formula 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hamilton is six months into his long-awaited maiden season with Ferrari, one that hasn\u2019t lived up to the expectations that surrounded his winter move from Mercedes.<\/p>\n

Leclerc has out-raced Hamilton on all but one occasion in the opening nine races, though the seven-time F1 champion did secure Ferrari\u2019s only win in the China Sprint.<\/p>\n

Hamilton has admitted that his adaptation at Ferrari has been tougher than he envisaged, a process that the Italian marque\u2019s troublesome SF-25 car has exacerbated.<\/p>\n

But despite that, Leclerc has noted that his team-mate\u2019s notorious prowess on the brakes is one element that has remained prominent during his initial months in red.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expected many, many things from Lewis, obviously, joining the team and having so much success,\u201d Leclerc told media including Motorsport Week<\/strong> in Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn F1, you kind of expect to see the speed, the special things in terms of driving. So all these kind of things were expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI still got surprised with the way he brakes, by example.\u00a0I think how late he brakes is very, very, very impressive. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn my career, I\u2019ve always been the one braking later than my team-mates.\u00a0And that is a particular driving style that I didn\u2019t really see in any of my team-mates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Lewis is a step ahead even more so in that direction. So that surprised me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"LewisCharles Leclerc has been learning from Lewis Hamilton inside and outside the car<\/p>\n

Hamilton providing an \u2018example\u2019 to Leclerc<\/p>\n

However, Leclerc detailed that observing how Hamilton manages his time to ensure his various outside interests don\u2019t impact his racing has impressed him the most.<\/p>\n

The Monegasque, who runs his own ice cream brand \u2018LEC\u2019, explained that he is drawing on his team-mate\u2019s expertise in that regard to handle his external endeavours.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut then for the rest, I think the rest is what surprised me the most.\u00a0And it\u2019s things that I did not expect,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis discipline is very, very impressive.\u00a0From outside, I obviously remember I was seeing him and managing so many different things.\u00a0And I was like, \u2018this has to be hard.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cBut then when you look at how organised everything is, you can understand that he\u2019s just 200 per cent focused on racing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then everything is super well organised for these other projects to run very smoothly without his implications daily.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s something that I take as an example for me, because we\u2019ve all got passions, we\u2019ve all got projects outside racing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBut obviously, for all of us, the most important is that we stay focused on racing. And I think on that, Lewis is very, very impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n

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