Lewis Hamilton will not take part in a Pirelli tyre test with Ferrari on Friday, having been scheduled to carry out driving duties alongside team-mate Charles Leclerc.<\/p>\n
F1’s tyre supplier Pirelli is set up at the Mugello Circuit in Italy, where it is conducting important tests on its 2026 tyre range.<\/p>\n
The tyres for next year will be introduced to F1 alongside a dramatic rule change for both the chassis and power unit regulations.<\/p>\n
Pirelli has been testing its range all year, and its latest outing began on Thursday with Haas’ Esteban Ocon and Oliver Bearman driving a mule car based on the 2024 challenger, adapted to accommodate the 2026 tyres.<\/p>\n
Romain Grosjean will also get a run out in an F1 car at the test for the first time since his horror crash at the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
Friday marks Ferrari’s turn to gather data for Pirelli, and while Leclerc will be present for the Italian team, Hamilton will not.<\/p>\n
The seven-time champion has been replaced by former F1 driver Zhou Guanyu, who returned to Ferrari this year as a reserve driver following his split from Sauber.<\/p>\n
Hamilton’s reason for skipping the test are not yet known.<\/p>\n
However, earlier this week, Hamilton shared that his dog Roscoe had suffered a health scare and urged all to keep the bulldog in their thoughts and prayers.<\/p>\n
Hamilton will jump back behind the wheel next weekend at the Singapore Grand Prix as he continues to seek his first podium for Ferrari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton will not take part in a Pirelli tyre test with Ferrari on Friday, having been scheduled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":["post-170083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}