Lewis Hamilton has begun work at Ferrari with “complete immersion” into the group at Maranello, saying he’s realizing a profession dream.
The seven-time world champion, signed by Ferrari to race alongside Charles Leclerc, made his first go to to Maranello as a Ferrari driver on Monday, being greeted by group principal Fred Vasseur and CEO Benedetto Vigna on the iconic house of Enzo Ferrari on the Fiorano check monitor.
Hamilton posed for photographs with what Ferrari describes as his favourite supercar – the F40 – within the sq. named after Michael Schumacher, with whom Hamilton shares the report for many drivers’ titles in System 1. Following a go to into Enzo Ferrari’s outdated workplace and the pit storage at Fiorano, Hamilton then met with senior administration and Enzo’s son Piero Ferrari within the group’s manufacturing facility, earlier than spending time with a number of departments at Maranello.
“There are some days that you’ll bear in mind perpetually and right this moment, my first as a Scuderia Ferrari HP driver, is a type of days,” Hamilton stated. “I’ve been fortunate sufficient to have achieved issues in my profession I by no means thought potential, however a part of me has at all times held on to that dream of racing in crimson. I couldn’t be happier to appreciate that dream right this moment.
“I’m extremely grateful to John Elkann, Benedetto Vigna, Fred Vasseur and everybody at Ferrari for his or her belief in me and making me a part of this household. I’m so excited to begin this new period and to satisfy and work with a massively proficient and provoking group of individuals. I’m devoted to bringing every thing I’ve to ship for the group, the broader group and the followers.
“As we speak we begin a brand new chapter within the historical past of this iconic group, and I can’t wait to see what story we are going to write collectively.”
Hamilton will stay at Maranello on Tuesday for extra technical conferences and briefings forward of a deliberate testing of earlier automobile (TPC) outing in Italy later this month.
Merely saying the developments referring to Hamilton’s first day at Ferrari exhibits the dimensions of his signing for the group, with large curiosity surrounding the partnership between the motive force with essentially the most race victories in F1 historical past and the game’s most profitable constructor.
