Lewis Hamilton warned he faces F1 reality check due to Ferrari ‘limitations’

Lewis Hamilton has been warned about the challenges he faces at Ferrari (Image: GETTY)

is with after joining the Scuderia over the winter following a 12-year spell with .

But the 40-year-old has been warned by former F1 strategy engineer Bernie Collins that he will face plenty of challenges with the Italian team as their set-up will be different to what he is used to.

Hamilton won six of his seven world titles with but fell away in his final few years with the Silver Arrows due to the performance of the car.

He will be aiming to compete with star and ace at the front of the grid this season and could even be eyeing up a record eighth world title.

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Hamilton has been handed plenty of advice ahead of his maiden campaign with his new employers. And he may pay particular attention to a warning from Collins, who worked as Aston Martin’s head of race strategy between 2020 and 2022.

“It’s good to see making changes,” Collins told . “Is that all off the back of Hamilton? We don’t know because he’ll have come in and started to give them feedback.

“They won’t necessarily have been able to totally change their car platform. But they have made changes.

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Bernie Collins

Former F1 strategy engineer Bernie Collins has sent a warning to Ferrari star Lewis Hamilton (Image: SKY SPORTS)

“I think for a driver to make a shift from always having driven -powered cars to is massive. How the engine works is different, how they regenerate energy, how they deploy it, what the switches do, what the switches are called, where they are on the steering wheel.

“I have had more drivers than I can come out [and name] who have pressed DRS when they should have been pressing the radio button or whatever.

“Yes they will customise it, they will make it bespoke to him – but there are limitations to what they can do in all of that.

“How their engineering team works, how their meetings work – everything is different. It’s a massive shift in environment.

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“We’ve seen it so many times in the past, drivers stopping in the wrong pit box. We’ve seen them drive through the wrong pit box – it’s all fun, we cut it up and make a nice meme out of it or whatever. So there is going to be a lot of adjustment to what’s gone on.

“It’s when you have a spin and you have to find reverse quickly or a member of the procedure or you’ve got a Safety Car and what are the actions that you need to take without being told on the radio.

“It’s those instinct reactions which are going to take the time to change how he’s reacted to things in the past.”

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