Sir Lewis Hamilton has spoken out for the first time after he crashed during a pre-season test which caused ‘significant damage’ to his Ferrari. The seven-time Formula 1 champion’s Ferrari career began last week and he has been testing some of their older cars in order to get acclimatised with his new team.

Lewis Hamilton has been advocating for a Formula 1 Grand Prix in Africa for years, and it looks like he's soon going to get his wish granted.

Lewis Hamilton has waved to a crowd of waiting fans as he drove a Ferrari Formula 1 car for the first time since joining the Italian team for the 2025 season.

When news emerged on Wednesday that Lewis Hamilton had crashed the 2023 Ferrari car in a private test in Barcelona, the natural response was that his acclimatisation in scarlet red wasn’t quite going according to plan.

Lewis Hamilton says his first race as a Ferrari driver “can’t come soon enough” with the Briton’s pre-season run in a 2023 SF-23 curtailed when he crashed in testing. Hamilton’s new career path as a Ferrari Formula 1 driver began in earnest last week when the Briton spent time at the team’s Maranello headquarters before climbing into the cockpit of an SF-23 for 30 laps of the Fiorano circuit.

Ferrari have announced the official name of the first F1 car Lewis Hamilton will drive with the team in 2025. The seven-time world champion is yet to take to the track in Ferrari’s 2025 challenger, with Hamilton instead getting to grips with his new team in the SF-23 and 24.

Ferrari have confirmed that their 2025 F1 car will be called the SF-25, in line with their last two Scuderia challengers. Lewis Hamilton will debut in scarlet red this year and is set to drive the SF-25 for the first time at the official three-day pre-season test in Bahrain from 26-28 February.