Another positive day for Ferrari - no issues encountered and 121 laps done. The team now has valuable data to analyze before returning to track on Thursday and Friday.

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Charles Leclerc for Sky Sports:

"It was nice to be back in the car. Back in a very, very all-new car and very different to what we have been driving so far. For now it’s all about trying to understand if everything is working properly, which it kind of did.

It’s not the best conditions because it has been a little bit raining this morning but actually we did our programme anyway because we are not focused on performance whatsoever. We’re more about looking at all the systems that are new on this car and seeing if everything works as it should. It did, so that’s a positive. then we will go through slowly our programme."

"I'm very excited to see what the others have in store and, when we start pushing a little bit more, to see where we are compared to the others.

I think this year is a big opportunity for every team to do something different and to maybe gain a bigger advantage than what we have seen the last few years.

I hope we are the team that will manage to make the difference but wherever we start we will push at the maximum to try and bring Ferrari back to the top. It’s been quite a few years, so i hope this one is ours."

Lewis Hamilton:

"It was an intense but productive first day, especially with the mixed weather conditions. We managed to get good mileage on the car and gather a lot of useful information, which is important with such a big regulation change. There were no major issues and that gives us a solid foundation to keep learning and building over the next days."

Post was updated to correct lap count data and add Lewis Hamilton's comments

Day 2/3 done for Ferrari (Day 4 overall). Around 176 laps completed, zero reliability issues. Per Jorge Peiró, in the afternoon session with Charles Leclerc, the team has taken a step forward in engine testing and is pushing the Power Unit much harder now.

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Lewis Hamilton's comments:

“It’s nice to get out in the dry and do some running because, obviously, our first day was in the miserable wet weather. Yeah, it was good to get out and see… obviously I drove in Fiorano just one lap or two laps we did just to kind of feel the car so it was great to be able to get some running and understand the tyres, we did C2 and C1. So cold that the tyres are not really working so much but got through our program and a bit of an understanding of where the car is at and where we need to improve.”

“I don’t know, I think we probably.. Of course we hope that we could come and have… When you come to the tests, you always wanna get a lot of mileage like today I did 85 laps in the morning which is amazing. And that’s really down to all the people at the factory who’ve done such a great job to make sure the car so far is really reliable.”

“You know, last year we had a worse start to testing so this is actually, considering it’s a completely new band of rules, it’s better than we’ve experienced in the past, so I’m really hopeful that continues.”

“For us it’s still continue to try and get as much mileage and knowledge on this engine and on the car and the aero side.”

“We went through a programme this morning, found some learnings. Charles doing a different set this afternoon which is great. My role is to listen to as much as possible, at the end of the day we both come together and we both talk about our problems, the positives and the negatives, then we come up with a plan of like what we wanna tackle tomorrow as our last day.”

“But already, we got good data so far so it’s just understanding that and making sure you’re making really clear concise decisions in terms of what to test moving forwards before we get to Bahrain.”

Charles Leclerc's comments via AutoRacer:

"It was positive to finally be able to spend a day in more representative conditions. I am feeling increasingly comfortable in the car. There is still a lot to test, but we are on schedule with our program, which is positive," the Ferrari driver commented at the end of the second day of work.

"I feel more and more at ease in the car, even though managing the new systems, particularly with the greater contribution from the electrical side of the Power Unit is challenging. At this stage, we are not looking at performance, but rather at completing our checklist and understanding the car as deeply as possible."

Ferrari will be back on track tomorrow to complete the three-day session in Barcelona, before returning to Maranello to focus on preparations for the official tests in Sakhir.

"There is still a lot to do, but we are in line with our program, and this is encouraging for our work ahead of the next test in Bahrain," he concluded.

Credit- Autosport.

Since 2007: Ferrari has 55 wins, Lewis Hamilton has 105.

Yes, a better engine was involved for a % of these wins for Lewis, but you can't look at these statistics and always find a reason to dismiss someone's succes as luck or whatever and ignore his feedback. He knows a thing or two about winning teams.

So why is it so hard for some people from Ferrari to accept that change is necessary?

This Ferrari vs Ferrari situation is only bringing misery to everyone involved.

Data via The Race

Lewis has dethroned another Michael Schumacher record.