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Hamilton “nonetheless pinching himself” as Ferrari race day debut nears
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Hamilton “nonetheless pinching himself” as Ferrari race day debut nears

By Miles Cooper March 6, 2025
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For those who’ve been eagerly anticipating Lewis Hamilton’s first official race weekend in purple, you’re actually not the one one. For a driver sometimes recognized for his comparatively cool and calm demeanor, the 40-year-old Ferrari driver is simply as excited (probably much more) about subsequent week, and attempting as a lot as he can to play it considerably cool as he prepares to set off for Australia in preparation for the 2025 Components 1 season opener in Melbourne. 

In a brief video interview with the BBC, Hamilton divulges a little bit of his private pleasure and realization as his first race with Ferrari shortly arrives.

“I’m nonetheless pinching myself,” he says. “Subsequent week once I get to the race, I’m going to be beginning a grand prix in purple. Wow. I don’t have the phrases to actually clarify simply how excited I’m.”

After years of sporting principally white or black firesuits (his time with McLaren and Mercedes), purple is kind of an adjustment for the eyes already. He admits it caught him off guard the primary time he really noticed himself, within the lavatory of all locations — shared in a latest interview with Time. Pausing to actually soak up his reflection, he admits he likes what he sees. “The swimsuit regarded so good on me,” he says within the article. “I’m like, rattling.”

Hamilton “nonetheless pinching himself” as Ferrari race day debut nears

Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari

Photograph by: Andy Hone / Motorsport Pictures

Regardless of the psychological and visible changes of a brand new and brightly coloured uniform, and including on studying a completely new automobile engineered and crafted exterior of the world of Mercedes he’s lengthy been related to, Hamilton is embracing this thrilling newfound chapter in his profession, racing with one of the storied groups on the grid. And in his interviews it seems he could be extra enthusiastic about his personal “fan-like” dream coming true. It’s becoming then, that with F1 bringing Melbourne again to the season opener on the calendar, that he’s in a position to begin this unbelievable subsequent chapter the place he started his first one with F1 again in 2007 — at Melbourne. 

That first look on the Components 1 grid almost 20 years in the past with the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes staff making for one outstanding debut. Clad in white (with a touch of one other purple hue), Hamilton made a surprising rookie run to complete third. Already on everybody’s radar as a promising rookie, snagging a podium in his debut race set the tone, and he’d end out the season second total within the drivers’ factors. The next yr, he additional proved his prowess by incomes his very first of what would turn into seven complete World Drivers’ Championship titles as of right this moment.

With such an unbelievable introduction to the beginning of his profession, there’s no assure that the identical or comparable consequence will come to fruition on race day in Melbourne. Ferrari didn’t come away with any large or thrilling information or stats from Pre-Season testing in Bahrain final week. However testing is in fact not a assure to how the vehicles and staff will carry out come race day. In accordance with Hamilton, they’re as greatest ready as they are often given the quick house of time that he, personally, has had with the staff.

As such, Hamilton, and Ferrari, will possible be extra centered on the duty at hand, whereas each bit as excited, or extra, than the followers are when he does arrive in all purple come subsequent week.

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