Lewis Hamilton has described that Ferrari has made some “good discoveries” on its SF-26 car during the first week of Bahrain testing.<\/p>\n
Hamilton finished third fastest overall in Sakhir with 190 laps under his belt across his day-and-a-half in the car, including a solid race simulation on Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Team-mate Charles Leclerc completed a field-high 218 laps as Ferrari firmly cemented its status in the leading gaggle of teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reflecting on his running, Hamilton also felt a “key” breakthrough had been made in understanding the new tyres.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s been a positive week overall,” Hamilton began his reflections with.<\/p>\n
“We completed a lot of laps and went through the full programme, which allowed us to gather plenty of useful data and learn more about the car.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The SF-26 has felt generally good, but this generation of car is quite complex and finding the right operating window, especially with the tyres, is key.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We\u2019ve made some good discoveries and also identified areas where we can improve.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We still have another test ahead of us, which will be important to build on what we\u2019ve learned and continue making progress.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has described that Ferrari has made some “good discoveries” on its SF-26 car during the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[827,830,828,831,829,826,813,43,823,825,824,44,822,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-479292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1-calendar","10":"tag-f1-live","11":"tag-f1-results","12":"tag-f1-standings","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-lewis-hamilton","17":"tag-max-verstappen","18":"tag-motorsport","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-top-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topnews","24":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}