Lewis Hamilton will drive again for Ferrari next week in a Pirelli tyre test, after his last Barcelona session on Wednesday ended prematurely when he crashed the SF-23

While both Charles Leclerc and Hamilton put in a solid first day of work on Tuesday, according to reports from Italian media Hamilton crashed in the final sector of the circuit and hit the barriers. That sector was reconfigured ahead of the 2023 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.