Lewis Hamilton has confirmed he has not used Ferrari’s simulator for race preparation since the Canadian Grand Prix at the end of May, believing it was a tool which “mislead” him.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The seven-time world champion found throughout his debut Ferrari season that the simulator was actively misleading him, producing setups that bore little resemblance to how the SF-25 behaved on track.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
He tried persistently to make it work but the correlation between the virtual car and the real one was not there, echoing problems he experienced during his final years at Mercedes.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
It triggered the 41-year-old to change his race preparation and stop using the simulator, something which has seen his form improve dramatically.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Since ending his use of the simulator, Hamilton has secured a race win and two further podiums, putting him just 32 points adrift of Kimi Antonelli in the title fight.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Asked if he has used the simulator since Canada, Hamilton told select media, including RacingNews365: “No.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u00a0Pushed on how much this has helped, he responded with a smile: “Massively.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I tried all last year with it, but as I said, when I was at Mercedes for the first few years I didn’t use it. As it continued to develop, there was a point where we didn’t use it.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I’ve been driving simulators since 1997 and they can be really powerful and really useful tools, but they can also mislead you.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I found all last year particularly that was the case, and then in previous years when I was at Mercedes it was very similar, so that’s why I didn’t use it. Since I stopped, my performance has gone much, much better.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has confirmed he has not used Ferrari’s simulator for race preparation since the Canadian Grand Prix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-818390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818390","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=818390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}