Lewis Hamilton is primed to make his first F1 race look for the well-known Italian automobile producer at Albert Park.
Lewis Hamilton says he’s itching to get going throughout the “most fun interval of my life” at Ferrari whereas cautioning a couple of transition interval as he will get used to a brand new automobile.
After 12 years with Mercedes, he’ll race for the primary time within the Ferrari crimson on the season-opening Australian Grand Prix this weekend, realizing expectations are excessive.
The seven-time world champion formally started work on the Scuderia in January after his shock transfer and accomplished 162 laps of testing in Bahrain.
Hamilton, 40, stated on Thursday it was onerous to evaluate Ferrari’s place within the pecking order so early within the season.
“Clearly three days within the automobile, tough to know the place we stand with everybody else. However we simply attempt to hold our heads down and simply give attention to our job,” he stated in Melbourne on Thursday.
“However for me, I imply, I’m simply itching to get going, I assume it’s been a very long time coming.”
Ferrari have been pipped to the constructors’ championship by McLaren final 12 months, the seventh time the Italian group had completed second since they final received the group title in 2008.
Kimi Raikkonen was the final Ferrari driver to elevate the world championship for the well-known Italian automobile producer in 2007, and Hamilton tempered expectations about what he would possibly obtain.
“I’ve an expectation for myself. I do know what I can carry, I do know I can ship, I do know what it’s going to take to do this, and it’s simply getting your head down and dealing away,” he stated.
“So I include a really open thoughts. It’s about moving into the season, that is about moving into an excellent rhythm.
“I’m nonetheless studying this new automobile that’s quite a bit completely different to what I’ve pushed for my earlier profession, within the sense of Mercedes energy coming into Ferrari energy,” he added.
“It’s one thing fairly new, completely different vibration, completely different really feel, completely different means of working.
“The entire group works utterly in another way.”
However he stated the brand new problem motivated him.
“Undoubtedly that is probably the most thrilling interval of my life, and so I’m actually simply having fun with it, and I’m so excited to get within the automobile tomorrow,” he stated on Thursday.
Requested what can be an excellent lead to Melbourne, he replied: “I believe I simply finally wish to come away realizing that I’ve given completely every thing.
“That I’ve excelled in the way in which that I do know I can, that I felt comfy within the automobile and only one foot in entrance of the opposite.”
