HAMILTON STEPS AWAY FROM FERRARI SIMULATOR BEFORE RACE WEEKENDS
Lewis Hamilton has revealed that he will stop using Ferrari’s simulator before race weekends as he searches for answers to the team’s ongoing performance problems.
The seven-time world champion explained that he plans to try a different preparation approach starting from the next Grand Prix because the current method has not been producing the expected results.
“I’m going to approach the next race differently,” Hamilton said. “Because the way we are preparing at the moment is not helping. So we’ll see how that works at the next event.”
According to Hamilton, the main issue is the lack of correlation between the simulator and the real car on track. Ferrari has struggled to match the simulator data with actual circuit performance, making race weekend setups difficult to predict.
“I work on the correlation every week,” he explained. “You go into the simulator, prepare for the track, set up the car to a certain point, and then you arrive at the circuit and that setup does not work.”
The British driver believes the simulator is currently creating more confusion than helping the team improve performance. Because of this, he will temporarily abandon that part of the preparation process to see if a more direct approach can produce better results on track.
The last time Hamilton skipped simulator preparation before a race weekend was during the short break between the Australian and Chinese Grands Prix, when the calendar left very little time between events.
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