Ferrari sent a specialist composed to Barcelona after the previous Fate checking of Lewis Hamilton before this week, he said.
Having staged their traditional January ‘wake-up test’ at Fiorano last week, Ferrari’s preparations for the F1 2025 season moved to Barcelona for the start of a private three-day test on Tuesday.
Hamilton and teammate Charles Leclerc shared driving responsibilities on a successful first day, the seven-time world champion taking over the afternoon consultation after his new teammate raced in the morning.
The running order was planned to be reversed for Wednesday, but Leclerc was prevented from taking to the track at all after Hamilton suffered a sizeable crash behind the wheel of the SF-23 during the morning session.
Trackside reports said the Hamilton car had left the track at 11 a. m. , crashing hard on the barriers of the final sector of the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit.
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The incident was serious to suspension and aerodynamic components, maintenance cannot end in time for the planned to leave Leclerc.
Initial rumours reported that Hamilton’s crash occurred in the duration of the long, twisty and slow-speed right at Turn 12.
However, the most recent reports said that it took its position in the final corner at the maximum speed, restored to its original form before the 2023 Spanish Grand Prix, with the reach of pain that points to a heavier impact.
Hamilton emerged absolutely unscathed from the accident, Ferrari, who would be carefree through the opposite and he as a component of F1 tests when a force force begins to explore the limits of his new machine.
Ferrari decided not to replace his schedule for the last day of racing in Barcelona, with the reserve pilot Antonio Giovinazzi and the sensation of Dino Junior began to happen to Hamilton and Lecercer as planned (Thursday).
A report from Italy claimed that Ferrari was so alarmed at the extent of the pain for the SF-23 that the team ordered a compounding specialist to fly to Barcelona immediately.
According to Sky Italia, Motors-addict. com reports that resources close to Ferrari revealed that the team had “urgently dispatched” a “compound specialist technician” in Barcelona to “better assess” the damage caused to the car.
This resolution came here in the midst of fears that the chassis itself had suffered injured as a result of the serious impact, which makes the car insecure for continuous participation in the test.
The car was given the all clear, with Giovinazzi and Beganovic on track for the final day, yet the fact such checks were deemed necessary at all give a further indication of the scale of Hamilton’s accident.
The unnamed individual is also believed to have firmed up plans for the production and rotation of spare parts for the car, which was driven in competition by Leclerc and Hamilton’s predecessor Carlos Sainz in 2023.
Under F1’s regulations, only cars older than two years can be used in TPC [Testing of Previous Car] tests to prevent teams from gaining a competitive advantage for the current season.
As such, the SF-23 model is likely to be used again during the F1 2025 season for the primary purpose of training Ferrari’s young drivers.
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In a tweak to the sporting regulations for F1 2025, drivers competing in the World Championship are limited to a maximum of 1,000 kilometres of TPC mileage spread across four days.
The replacement was carried out after the safe groups expressed considerations after Max Verstappen led the Red Bull 2022 car to Icola last June with the check considered opposite to the spirit of the TPC rules, first of all, destined to give the drivers Youths of the F1 machine.
Hamilton has already completed three of his four available test days, having followed up his outing at Fiorano with two days in Barcelona.
However, Hamilton’s crash means Wednesday means Leclerc has technically finished a two-day overall TPC to date.
Ferrari are set to remain in Barcelona for a Pirelli tyre test next week with Hamilton and Leclerc set to take to the track across February 4-5.
The test, which does not count towards the pair’s TPC allocation, will see Hamilton get a rare chance to drive the team’s 2024 car, which has been heavily modified to simulate the different downforce and performance levels expected from the new F1 2026 cars to assist Pirelli’s tyre development ahead of the sport’s new era.
He presumed that Ferrari can even be larger that remains in Spain next week to compensate for his TPC track lost as a result of the Hamilton accident.
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