Hamilton crashes on second day of private Ferrari Barcelona F1 test

Lewis Hamilton has crashed on the second of his three days of personal Formulation 1 testing together with his new Ferrari squad, which is happening on the Barcelona circuit this week, Autosport understands.

Hamilton is known to be unhurt within the incident, which occurred as he was traversing the third sector of the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya at round 11am native time.

The seven-time world champion hit the obstacles with a modified model of Ferrari’s 2023 challenger – the SF-23 – which sustained harm to its suspension and aerodynamic bodywork items.

Hamilton climbed from the automotive that was then introduced again to the pits the place Ferrari is analysing the reason for the incident.

Charles Leclerc was because of take over driving duties in what’s a Testing of Earlier Vehicles (TPC) session, which counts in direction of the 4 days and 1,000km totals every F1 group can use in vehicles which might be two years previous or extra, every season, if their squads are operating such programmes.

Leclerc’s run on Wednesday has been delayed whereas Ferrari fixes the SF-23 it had been fielding – a variant of the machine that secured only a single win through Hamilton’s predecessor, Carlos Sainz, within the 2023 season.

Charles Leclerc, Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari Check Barcelona

Picture by: Ferrari

Ferrari’s TPC group, which is working underneath the supervision of ex-F1 racer and deputy group principal Jerome D’Ambrosio, plus its new technical director Loic Serra, will at the least be capable to swap in Leclerc’s seat, pedals, steering wheel and different private cockpit components because it makes the repairs to keep away from dropping any extra time.

The take a look at is scheduled to run till Thursday and follows each Hamilton and Leclerc driving at Ferrari’s Fiorano dwelling take a look at monitor final week.

That outing additionally counted in direction of every group’s TPC allowance for 2025, with Hamilton understood to have used solely 89 of his 1,000km throughout his first time behind the wheel of a Ferrari F1 automotive, with six-season Scuderia stalwart Leclerc finishing 42.

The Barcelona take a look at had been scheduled to benefit from higher climate in comparison with the chilly and moist circumstances at Fiorano final week.