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Ferrari 'more united than ever' as Hamilton drives new F1 car after troubled 2025
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Britain's Lewis Hamilton steers his Ferrari Formula One SF-26 at the Ferrari private test track, in Fiorano Modenese, Italy, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. - photo by AP Photo/Antonio Calanni
FIORANO MODENESE, Italy (AP) — Team principal Fred Vasseur says Ferrari is “more united than ever” as Lewis Hamilton test drove the car designed to bring the Italian giant back to the front of the Formula 1 field following a troubled 2025. Hamilton was at the wheel as the SF-26 took to Ferrari's Fiorano test track on a cool, damp winter's day for brief “shakedown” runs Friday ahead of the start of official F1 preseason testing next week in Spain. One of the biggest regulation changes in F1 history could offer Ferrari the chance to move on from a difficult 2025 season in which Hamilton and teammate Charles Leclerc failed to win a single Grand Prix.