Lewis Hamilton handed three-race deadline as Ferrari deny Martin Brundle request
Lewis Hamilton handed three-race deadline as Ferrari deny Martin Brundle request
Share:
Ferrari have denied Martin Brundle the chance to drive one of their old Formula 1 cars, the Sky Sports pundit has revealed. Brundle expressed his desire to test the 'challenging' experience of driving for the prestigious Scuderia outfit, to get a sense of the preparation work Lewis Hamilton is undergoing. But it seems the Italian team were not prepared to take part in such a feature.
Ferrari rocked the F1 world with their sensational signing of Hamilton for the 2025 season. And now there is plenty of work going on to help the seven-time champion get up to speed with their machinery and processes ahead of the first race of the season in Melbourne in mid-March.
Brundle, speaking to Sky Sports, said he understands Hamilton's allure to Ferrari but suspects the 40-year-old will still be expected to hit the ground running. He said: "I did write to Ferrari for once and asked them to put me in the car, but they said no.
"There's something so special about the prancing horse, about Ferrari. You're driving for a country, not just a team there. All the expectations for that and the politics and the media who go with that. That can be challenging. "It's a carbon fire chassis that happens to be painted red instead of silver or black, as it was at Mercedes. But somehow it matters. There are no excuses at this level for anybody. Somebody like Lewis, they will expect him within two or three races to have aced the people around him and in the car.
"Never underestimate Lewis Hamilton but Charles Leclerc is fast, there is no doubt about it. He stopped crashing a little bit, because he had a habit of over-driving himself in the car and hitting the wall a bit too frequently. Charles is the real deal now. He will take some beating," reports the Express.
