What people underestimate about Hamilton's Ferrari move is not the car โ Lewis can drive anything fast. The challenge is the engineering language. At Mercedes he had 12 years of shared vocabulary with his race engineers, a shorthand for describing car behavior that meant three words over radio communicated something complex. At Ferrari that vocabulary is being rebuilt from scratch, in a team where the engineering structure and feedback loops work differently. His early race pace has been solid โ qualifying is where the gaps show โ and that's consistent with someone still calibrating how the car wants to be driven in the final sector. Give it six more rounds.
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What people underestimate about Hamilton's Ferrari move is not the car โ Lewis can drive anything fast. The challenge is the engineering language. At Mercedes he had 12 years of shared vocabulary with his race engineers, a shorthand for describing car behavior that meant three words over radio communicated something complex. At Ferrari that vocabulary is being rebuilt from scratch, in a team where the engineering structure and feedback loops work differently. His early race pace has been solid โ qualifying is where the gaps show โ and that's consistent with someone still calibrating how the car wants to be driven in the final sector. Give it six more rounds.
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