Lewis Hamilton has made a $300,000 switch after his latest Ferrari change has been revealed. The Formula 1 champion’s arrival at the Scuderia saw the team execute a stunning social media campaign, as they drip-fed the stages of Hamilton’s arrival over the course of his debut week.

When Scuderia Ferrari announced on February 1, 2024 that Lewis Hamilton would join their Formula 1 team in 2025, the F1 world was turned on its head. Now, after arriving in Maranello, Italy earlier this week, the brand has offered up a first look at the end result: Hamilton behind the wheel of a Ferrari F1 car.

Hamilton turned his first laps for Scuderia Ferrari F1 team in a test session alongside new teammate Charles Leclerc on a damp Fiorano track at foggy Maranello, Italy, on Wednesday. It was the first on-track action for the team in 2025.

Ferrari are not at all concerned about Lewis Hamilton’s test crash having declared it is “perfectly normal” as he learns the limits of the Ferrari F1 cars. Hamilton’s immersion programme with his new team continued at the Circuit de Catalunya this week with the Briton once again behind the wheel of a 2023 SF-23.

Lewis Hamilton has made his hotly anticipated debut in a Ferrari car on track as the team prepare for the 2025 Formula 1 season. The seven-time world champion battled thick fog that greeted him at Ferrari's Maranello HQ - a good omen as fellow seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher also battled the fog on his first day at Ferrari back in 1995.