Lewis Hamilton’s ‘trouble’ with Charles Leclerc joke after ‘seamless’ Ferrari start

Hamilton is preparing for his first season as a Ferrari driver, having joined the Italian team from Mercedes on a multi-year contract.

The move sees the most decorated driver in F1 history, with 105 race wins and seven World Championships to his name, join forces with the sport’s most successful team.

It marks only the second team switch of Hamilton’s illustrious career with his only previous transfer occurring in 2013 when he swapped McLaren for Mercedes.

Hamilton’s move to Ferrari sees him link up with Leclerc, widely regarded as the fastest driver on the current grid who is entering his seventh full season with the Scuderia.

Speaking after the launch of the SF-25, Hamilton revealed that he has established a good rapport with Leclerc with the pair having shared interests in music and fashion.

He quipped that the Ferrari drivers will “definitely get into some trouble” during their time together at Maranello.

He said: “It’s seamless. Working with Charles, there’s been no dramas.

‘A child could have calculated Mercedes’ strategy error’

Mercedes cannot cope when they are under pressure – that’s according to RTL pundit Allard Kalff, who believes they “lose their way”.

And pressure is what Mercedes felt at the United States Grand Prix.

With Lewis Hamilton losing pole position to Max Verstappen at the Circuit of The Americas, the Briton was under pressure to get it right in Sunday’s 56-lap grand prix.

He did that at the start, taking the lead off Verstappen into the first corner. However, Red Bull responded by changing up their pit-stop strategy and bringing in Verstappen early.

He got the undercut on Hamilton at both stops with Mercedes opting not to react to Verstappen’s second stop, only bringing in Hamilton eight laps later.

Mercedes late again to react. They are making the same mistakes in strategy like Ferrari do.