Lewis Hamilton crashed on the second day of testing a 2023 Ferrari Formula One car at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya on Wednesday. The seven-times world champion, who had a first test run with his new team at their Fiorano track last week and is still adapting to his new surroundings after leaving Mercedes,

Hamilton ended his 12-year partnership with Mercedes at the end of the 2024 campaign. On the final lap of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, he overtook team-mate George Russell to record a fourth-place finish in his final start for the Brackley-based constructor.

Seven-time Formula 1 champion and newly acquired Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton will join teammate Charles Leclerc in Barcelona to begin testing for the 2025 season on Tuesday. The former Mercedes legend took his first photos "in red" last week, but officially hits the track for 186 laps of testing at Barcelona with Leclerc from Jan. 28-30.

Laurence Edmondson and Nate Saunders discuss Lewis Hamilton's private tests with Ferrari.

Lewis Hamilton is continuing his preparations for the Formula 1 season by testing for his new Ferrari team at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya this week.

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.