Ferrari have altered the cockpit position of their car for the F1 2025 season, it has been claimed, as the team prepare to welcome new signing Lewis Hamilton from Mercedes. It comes after Hamilton complained that the cockpit of his Mercedes was too close to the front wheels in his penultimate season with the team in 2023.

Fred Vasseur has urged his Ferrari team to keep their feet on the ground despite the “excitement” of Lewis Hamilton officially joining the team. After 12 years with Mercedes, seven-time F1 world champion Hamilton officially joined the Scuderia on 1 January ahead of the 2025 season.

Lewis Hamilton's long-awaited move to Ferrari is now official, and he marked the occasion with a couple of brief posts on social media.

Lewis Hamilton's choice of attire at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - his final race as a Mercedes driver before joining Ferrari - has been branded "inappropriate" by a former team-mate

Hamilton arrives in Maranello with a fire in his stomach and a clear objective: win a record-breaking eighth Drivers’ Championship title and bring the glory days back to the Tifosi. However, while his race pace remains strong, many have doubted Fred Vasseur’s decision to bring the Brit to Italy for the 2025 campaign.

A much-anticipated F1 partnership between the sport's most successful team and driver began on Wednesday with Hamilton joining Ferrari on a two-year deal from Mercedes, where he won six of his seven drivers' titles.