Lewis Hamilton: Ferrari driver ‘itching to get going’ at Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne | F1 News happymamay

Luis Hamilton said it was a “itch to go” before Ferrari appeared for the first time in the Australian Grand Prix race this week

The accumulation of the new F1 season was largely about Hamilton’s move to Ferrari, with a tremendous excitement about the joining of the seven -time world champion to the most famous sports team.

Hamilton was not in a battle of the title since the controversial 2021 season after three mixed seasons in Mercedes, although he won two race in 2024 at Silverstone and SPA-Francorchamps.

The pre -season test in Bahrain indicated that Ferrari is behind the McLaren lines, but the weekends at Albert Park will reveal the true arrangement of this field.

“It was difficult to know who was the place where everything looked between us,” Hamilton said.

“But for me, I was just a itch to go. I think it’s time for a long time, and I think this is my first grand prize race, one of those other first with the team, I feel very proud and grateful for the opportunity.”

Hamilton is the most successful F1 driver ever with 105 wins and 104 pole positions since he first appeared in 2007.

The 40 -year -old said he spent four days a week at the Ferrari Factory in Maranello and was staying in his world.

“I don’t really read the news, and I go for long periods of time without social media, so I am not bombing on social media,” he said.

“I live in my little bubble there. I went back to a kind of first box. I was giving everything at all to train, to push my mind and physically further than I had before, trying to see if I could excel and press more juice than this.

“I don’t assume that it will be easy. This is not. But I don’t feel pressure. The external pressure does not exist for me. The pressure from the inside, what I want to achieve.

“I am not here to prove anything to anyone. I never feel that I have to do anything. I have been here for a long time and I repeatedly done so.

“I know what I need to do, and this is what I want to present to myself, my family, for this team that I really think deserves success.”

Hamilton: The goal is to win

Ferrari has not won the drivers championship since Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel failed to become world champions in Reed.

The last title of Scuderia was the Championship of the Benin in 2008, the same year that Hamilton won his first title.

Hamilton has a “open -minded” coming to Melbourne, a Ferrari path was a strong historical in.

“Join a new team, as soon as you can perform high and get results, is better,” he added.

“Inevitably, there is a transitional period and there is a basis that must be built. This is what we were doing during the past two months and the first half of the season is in fact a kind of this basis, building these relationships, and the confidence you adopt with every person at all within the team in which you work.

“It is not something in it in the door. Confidence and respect; while respect is given, confidence is something that has been built over time.

“Of course, the goal is to win. The goal is to move the team forward. I have passed some amazing years and I will try to find out if I can spend a better public than the past three and there will be many factors that relate to that.”

Hamilton explains Ferrari’s differences

Hamilton will lead the Mercedes engine for his first time in F1, a major change due to technological differences.

Ferrari 2023 and 2024 cars were tested in January and February, but he only spent a day in the 2025 machine during the pre -season test, as it was second.

“It is completely new. [The engine has a] “A different vibration, it feels different,” Hamilton said.

“The entire team works completely differently.

“Looking at things from a different perspective that makes it exciting and difficult, this is the most exciting period in my life, so I really enjoy it and I am very excited to enter the car tomorrow [Friday]”

Sky SPORTS F1’s Live Australian GP

Thursday 13 March

• 9.45 pm: F3 Practice
• 10.55 pm: F2 practice

Friday 14 March

• 1 in the morning: Australian GP practice (the session begins at 1.30) **
• 2.55 in the morning: F3 qualifiers*
• 3.40 in the morning: The press conference of managers
• 4.45 in the morning: Australian practice GP Two (the session begins at 5 am)*
• 6.25 a.m.: F2 qualifiers*
• 7.15 in the morning: F1 show*

Saturday 15 March

• 12.10 AM: F3 Sprint*
• 1.10 am: Australian practice GP Three (the session begins at 1.30) **
• 3.10 AM: F2 SPRINT*
• 4.15 in the morning: Australian rehabilitation accumulation GP*
• 5 am: Australian GP qualification*
• 7 in the morning: TED booklet*
  7.30 am: Australian GP Rehabilitation* (9 am on Sky Showcase)
• 9.55 pm: F3 Features*

Sunday March 16

• 12.25 in the morning: F2* Features Race
• 2.30 AM: Australian GP accumulation: Grand Prix Sunday*
• 4 am: Australian Grand Prix*
• 6 am: Australian GP reaction: the volatile flag*
• 7 in the morning: Ted Book*
• 7.55 in the morning: Restart the Australian GP race
• 10 am: The most prominent Australia GP (also on Sky Showcase)
• 7 pm: Villeneuve pryoni – The indescribable Racing tragedy

*Also at the main sky sports event

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