and Charles Leclerc stopping at the track… for the same reasons. No issues

Lewis Hamilton greeting fans at the track! ❤️

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Lewis Hamilton went out to greet the fans outside Fiorano! ❤️

Lewis Hamilton signing some autographs!!

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🚨 | Williams will NOT participate in next week’s Barcelona pre-season test following delays in the FW48 programme.

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It’s been reported that Williams has struggled to pass the FIA's mandatory crash tests. 😬

Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc at the track! 🫂

Onboard with Lewis Hamilton. #SF26

The new regs’ active aero spotted on the SF-26. 👀

successful car launch. 🫶🏽

🚨 | Corriere reports that Lewis Hamilton’s new race engineer will be Carlo Santi (former engineer of Kimi Raikkonen), on an interim basis.

Carlo will hold that position temporarily as Ferrari is hiring someone from McLaren to be Hamilton’s right hand.

Lewis Hamilton reflects on launch day and says he’s really excited for Barcelona:

“If you probably look at all my other interviews all the other years, I never say that I get excited, but I'm massively excited, and I think that's okay, to say that. I'm excited for new beginnings, resetting.”

“The break, even though it was the shortest we’ve had, it was just what was needed (…) the team feels refreshed.”

#F1 | Lewis Hamilton post launch day:

“The emotions are just… Just waking up here, in Ferrari, it’s very very special. I’ve been here the past week or so, and seeing the car coming together, knowing how hard everyone works, all the work that we’ve been doing in the simulator… To then seeing a car come together, it is the most exciting part of the year.”

“It doesn’t get old. The Ferrari Club is here today, they’ve flown from all over. The tifosi really are the heartbeat of this team. No other driver, apart from Charles and I get this experience. It’s so unique. I’m really grateful for it.”

#F1 | Lewis Hamilton on the SF-26:

“Last year was the first time sitting in a red car, and that was so unique as the first, and that will always be the first. With this one, obviously the cockpit's quite white, because we've got the livery… it's great.”

“Its so exciting when they fire the car up and you get the new vibration of the car through your body, and then they open up the door and you end up going down to Turn 1, where you can see, literally when they open the door you can see the Tifosi. That’s something that I will never get used to, and something that I'll never be able to ever forget."

"Today’s really about reconnecting, reconnecting with the team, reconnecting with that passion of all the people that follow this team, and kind of a day of, like, it reignites, and really also reminds me of why I love doing what I do and why I love this sport.”

Lewis Hamilton: “Look, I’ve been doing this a long time but I love, I love what I do with more than anything!”

“I love this team, I really really love this team. I love the fans that we have. And to still be able to do this is such a privilege for me to be able to continue to do what I feel like I was born to do in my life.” ❤️

#F1 | Lewis Hamilton believes the team is very well equipped to take on the 2026 season:

“Just to be in Fiorano, you know, to be at Ferrari, to be here, to know that this is a start of a long journey, but one that I know that it just feels right, I think the team is in the best place it’s been, I think, for the time I’ve been here. And seeing everyone so motivated and driven, I think we’re really on it.”

“We’ve got a lot of work to do to really make sure we do all the diligence and we really understand this car and we really have to be quick to react, be very dynamic but I feel like all hands are on deck so I’m sure we can do that.”