Lewis Hamilton has explained how a system he never previously used at Mercedes is contributing to his struggles at Ferrari.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bar the sprint race in China which he won from pole, Hamilton has largely struggled to match team-mate Charles Leclerc across the first four races, although he did take a best finish of fifth in the Bahrain Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
For the first time in his F1 career, Hamilton is not using a Mercedes engine, having done so at McLaren between 2007-2012 and then in the success-laden 12 years he spent with the Mercedes works team.<\/p>\n
Hamilton is now adjusting to the new Ferrari power unit, which requires the use of engine braking, something he never had to deploy at Mercedes.<\/p>\n
On top of this, Hamilton is also using Brembo brakes after spending 12 years on Carbon Industries at Mercedes.<\/p>\n
“The car really does require a different driving style and I’m slowly adjusting to that and the set-up,” Hamilton explained to media including RacingNews365.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n “I’ve been a bit all over the place with it, a long way from Charles in the past two weekends, and then slowly migrating towards him, so if I start the weekend in a more convenient spot, and apply the techniques I learnt this weekend, hopefully I will improve.<\/p>\n “I have never used engine braking before, for the past 12 years, we never used engine braking, but here we use it a lot in the car.<\/p>\n “The brakes are so much different to what I had in the past, they move around a little bit more and in the last stint, I had to use the rears to turn the car, but then at other times, you have to put all your weight on the fronts.<\/p>\n “There is a bigger balance window than I’m used to as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has explained how a system he never previously used at Mercedes is contributing to his struggles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[859,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-21277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1-calendar","10":"tag-f1-live","11":"tag-f1-results","12":"tag-f1-standings","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-lewis-hamilton","16":"tag-max-verstappen","17":"tag-motorsport","18":"tag-racing","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114340591365357974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21277","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=21277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}