Lewis Hamilton has begun work at Ferrari with “complete immersion” into the workforce 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 workforce principal Fred Vasseur and CEO Benedetto Vigna on the iconic dwelling of Enzo Ferrari on the Fiorano take a look at observe.
Hamilton posed for pictures with what Ferrari describes as his favourite supercar – the F40 – within the sq. named after Michael Schumacher, with whom Hamilton shares the file for many drivers’ titles in System 1. Following a go to into Enzo Ferrari’s previous workplace and the pit storage at Fiorano, Hamilton then met with senior administration and Enzo’s son Piero Ferrari within the workforce’s manufacturing unit, earlier than spending time with a number of departments at Maranello.
“There are some days that you understand you’ll bear in mind endlessly 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 attainable, however a part of me has all the time held on to that dream of racing in pink. 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 start out this new period and to fulfill and work with a vastly gifted and galvanizing group of individuals. I’m devoted to bringing the whole lot I’ve to ship for the workforce, the broader group and the followers.
“Immediately we begin a brand new chapter within the historical past of this iconic workforce, and I can’t wait to see what story we’ll write collectively.”
Hamilton will stay at Maranello on Tuesday for extra technical conferences and briefings forward of a deliberate testing of earlier automotive (TPC) outing in Italy later this month.
Merely saying the developments regarding Hamilton’s first day at Ferrari reveals the size of his signing for the workforce, with enormous curiosity surrounding the partnership between the driving force with essentially the most race victories in F1 historical past and the game’s most profitable constructor.
