Brundle: Ferrari driver has no excuses

      Martin Brundle believes that Ferrari have very high expectations of Lewis Hamilton, but he will not have much time to adapt in a new for him team and really prove himself.

      "Once I appealed to Ferrari with a request to allow me to sit behind the wheel of any of their cars, but they responded with a refusal, - recalled Brandl in the air channel Sky Sports, regularly showing stories, in which the former racer of Formula 1, and now a popular commentator pilots technique of different teams, released in different years. - Because there is something special about Ferrari, the brand with the galloping stallion on its emblem, the Scuderia driver represents a whole country, not just a team. This explains all the expectations associated with it, all the political sentiment, and the attention of the Italian press. All of this can create additional complications. It would seem that this is also a carbon fiber chassis, but only painted red, not silver or black as was the case with Mercedes. Somehow, though, it makes a difference. And at this level, no one has any excuses. A driver like Lewis will be expected to be perfect in two or three races behind the wheel of this car. Hamilton should never be underestimated, but Charles Leclair is also fast, there is no doubt about that. He used to have a habit of crashing cars, because he too often crossed the line and got into accidents, but now he stopped doing that. So Charles has become a racer of the highest class, but he will sometimes have to suffer defeat (from the new partner). Last Wednesday Lewis Hamilton for the first time sat behind the wheel of the racing car Ferrari model 2023 and drove 30 laps on the track of the factory test site in Fiorano, but next week the tests will continue on the autodrome in Barcelona.

      During the first tests it became clear that the British racer is not quite comfortable in the cockpit SF-23, and he had questions about the location of the pedal unit. But the team assured that this is a temporary difficulty, so by the tests in Barcelona the problem should be solved, and in confirmation of this press service Scuderia shared photos made in the process of adjusting the seat.