Senior engineer reveals Lewis Hamilton Ferrari struggles \u2018worse from the outside than reality\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cAnd I\u2019ll be like: \u2018Wow, is that normal?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cWe get to the first test and there\u2019s no downforce at all and we\u2019re miles off. So I learned a lot through that experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen 2014 was incredibly exciting, also just because I was in a new team and I could see the amazing work that had been done already a couple years before, particularly on the engine.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd \u201917 was cool because it was a bigger, wider car. Just looked beefier and more downforce. It was mega.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis generation was probably the worst one, I would say, and I\u2019m praying that the next one is not worse.\u201d<\/p>\n
That may be more on hope than expectation, though, as Hamilton himself said simulator runs made him unsure if fans would like it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s really, really hard to predict what it\u2019s going to be like,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to dog it, I don\u2019t want to say too many negative things.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels so much different, I\u2019m not sure you\u2019re going to like it, but maybe I\u2019ll be surprised and maybe it\u2019ll be amazing.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe overtaking will be incredible. Maybe it\u2019ll be easier to overtake. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have less downforce, more torque. Driving in the rain, I can imagine will be very, very, very tough, much harder than it is already with what we have today.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut as I said, we might arrive and might have better grip than we anticipated. Whether you\u2019ll like the fact that we\u2019re downshifting at the end of straight and different boost parameters, different driving now, but it is a massive challenge for us all.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I think that\u2019s really what sports really about, right? It\u2019s about continuously challenging us ourselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we just did the same thing all the time, then it\u2019d be easy.\u201d<\/p>\n
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