Ralf Schumacher: “Hamilton doesn’t like being on the simulator, while Leclerc uses it every day”

Hamilton and Ferrari After a year together, Lewis Hamilton must give a decisive shake-up to the disappointing results achieved so far at the wheel of Ferrari. The British champion never got on the podium, a blemish that had never happened to him in his very long career.
The hope is that the regulatory revolution can work in the seven-time world champion’s favor, allowing him to regain the luster that he seemed to have lost in the difficult 2025. Rumors from the paddock Ralf Schumacher is not new to reporting the rumors he collects in the pit lane and he also did so in the Formel1.de podcast at the beginning of December. His statements are interesting because they talk specifically about Hamilton and an aspect of his work in the factory in Maranello: “Lewis Hamilton is an old school driver and therefore doesn’t like being in the simulator or in any case rarely uses it. This is a problem nowadays. If you can’t test, you have to work on the simulator, but he doesn’t like it or doesn’t want to do it. I have no idea why and I didn’t ask him. I only heard that he doesn’t do it, while Leclerc – like Verstappen – does it every This doesn’t help when you urgently need the driver, as in the case of Ferrari, to contribute to the development.”