{"id":106048,"date":"2026-01-30T18:38:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/hamilton-praises-ferrari-incredible-start-in-f1-testing\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:38:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:38:38","slug":"hamilton-praises-ferrari-incredible-start-in-f1-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/hamilton-praises-ferrari-incredible-start-in-f1-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton Praises Ferrari: &#8220;Incredible Start&#8221; in F1 Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hamilton Praises Ferrari&#8217;s Reliable Start to Pre-Season<\/h2>\n\n\nLewis Hamilton has expressed his satisfaction with Ferrari&#8217;s initial performance in the Formula 1 pre-season tests, highlighting the Italian team&#8217;s reliability compared to the previous year.\n\nThe seven-time world champion, who had his first dry session at the Barcelona circuit during the fourth day of private testing, praised Ferrari&#8217;s ability to accumulate kilometers without problems.\n\nHamilton and his teammate, Charles Leclerc, completed a combined total of 172 laps, demonstrating the endurance of the new single-seater.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0123%2Fr1604635_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Lewis Hamilton en pista con el Ferrari SF-26.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>Lewis Hamilton on track with the Ferrari SF-26.<\/em>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cWhen you get to testing, you always want to accumulate a lot of kilometers, like today, I did 85 laps in the morning, which is incredible\u201d, commented Hamilton. \u201cAnd that&#8217;s really due to all the people in the factory who have done a great job to ensure that the car, so far, is really reliable. Last year we had a worse start in testing\u201d.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Lewis Hamilton<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nHamilton added that the beginning of this year is better than what was experienced in the past, considering the new regulations, and he was optimistic about the continuous progress.\n\n\n<p>Although Ferrari has shown promising pace, Mercedes seems to be the team to beat at this stage of the pre-season.<\/p>\n\n\nGeorge Russell of Mercedes set the fastest lap on Thursday, with a time of 1:16.445, beating Kimi Antonelli&#8217;s best morning time by 0.636 seconds and Leclerc&#8217;s time by 1.778 seconds, who finished third overall.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton Praises Ferrari&#8217;s Reliable Start to Pre-Season Lewis Hamilton has expressed his satisfaction with Ferrari&#8217;s initial performance in the Formula 1 pre-season tests, highlighting the Italian team&#8217;s reliability compared to the previous year. The seven-time world champion, who had his first dry session at the Barcelona circuit during the fourth day of private testing, praised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[657,647,648,11619],"class_list":{"0":"post-106048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-ferrari","10":"tag-lewis-hamilton","11":"tag-testing"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}