In Melbourne everyone will drop the mask
True glory or a flash in the pan? Ferrari was the fastest in the winter tests in Bahrain. Charles Leclerc set the absolute best time and was also very fast and consistent in the long run. The Monegasque driver stated at the end of the tests that everything that needed to be tested was tested at Ferrari, so the question is if and how much the opponents were hiding.
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Lewis Hamilton in an interview given to Corriere della Sera emphasized that what emerged in Bahrain should be taken with a grain of salt: “Little emerged from the tests, everyone hid with fuel loads. I call Toto Wolff at Mercedes and Zak Brown at McLaren to try to understand what they have understood, but I get no results”, Hamilton explained.
The tendency of all the top teams, in fact, was to place themselves – at least in words – in the role of the fourth force to shift the spotlight elsewhere. In any case, Hamilton is convinced that 2025 served to further forge Ferrari and that all the premises to end the title drought are there: “After what we went through last year, we can face any situation. This team has everything to win, we must complete the job together with the fans. Easier said than done, but I came to Ferrari because I believed in it and I still do.”
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