Ferrari chairman John Elkann has flown in to touch base with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton and his F1 team on the second day of pre-season test♓ing in Bahrain.

Elkann was seen in the back of the Ferrari garage c🥃hatting with team principal Fred Vasseur while mega star signing Hamilton was out on track on Thursday morning at S🐠akhir.

Elkann’s appearance at pre❀-season𝓰 testing has been noted as a significant one by Sky Sports F1 pitlane reporter Ted Kravitz.

“You know I like to get excited about these things - but when was the last time you saw the main man at the FIAT Group a𒀰nd Ferrari, the president,✱ the man in charge, the man who signs the cheques, at Day 2 of testing?” Kravitz said.

“I’m sorry but this doesn’t happen! That is a key appearance by John Elkann who has flown in, presumably on his own company jet, to touch base with Lewis Hamilton and his Ferrari teamဣ.

“That’s really interesting to see him there.”

Fellow Sky Sports pundit and ex-F1 driver Karun Chandhok drew comparisons to when fellow seven-time world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Michael Schumacher joined Ferrari.

“It’s a h💃ark back to when they last signed a world champion mega star in Michael Schumacher,” Chandhok commented.

“Then, Elkann’s uncle Gianni Agnelli was in the pitlane with Luc♐a di Montezemolo going to watch this huge asset that they’d✱ signed.

“It und𝓡erlines the significance to the Ferrari Group, not just the F1 team, that signing Lewis Hamil൩ton has.”

Hamilton’s first words on 2025 Ferrari

Hamilt🌞on made his official pre-season testing debut for Ferrari on Wednesday morning, and ended up 13th in the timesheets by the end of the opening day of running in Bahrain.

Sꦉpeaking at the end of the day, Hamilton delivered an initial judgement on Ferrari’s 2025 challenger, the SF-25.

“Testing is always exciting,” said Hamilton.

“It’s the fi🐼rst time you get to see what everyone has been developing and can start to get a feel for your own car and the year ahead.

“Being here with S💦cuderia Ferrari HP and in the SF-25 for the first time is an incredible feeli༺ng.

“Our focus right now is on experimenting with diff🐻erent things, gathering as much data as possib🉐le and getting familiar with the car, and we’ve already learned a lot.

“It’s too early to really understand performance, but everything feels good and as a team we’re working on t♛he best way to optimise each run.

“There’s more to do over the next few days to get through our programme and understand th💯e car to the best of our ability, but right now I'm looking forward to getting out there again.”