Hamilton crashes Ferrari F1 car in private Barcelona test

Lewis Hamilton has crashed on the second of his three days of personal Components 1 testing along with his new Ferrari squad in Barcelona this week, Motorsport.com 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 11 am native time.

The seven-time world hit the monitor’s boundaries 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 had been because of take over driving duties in what’s a Testing of Earlier Automobiles (TPC) session, which counts in the direction of the 4 days and 1,000km yearly totals every F1 workforce can use with its race drivers in vehicles which might be two years outdated or extra.

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

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

The check is scheduled to run till Thursday and follows each Hamilton and Leclerc driving at Ferrari’s Fiorano house check monitor final week.

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

The Barcelona check had been scheduled to benefit from higher climate in comparison with the chilly and moist situations at Fiorano final week.