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By Saajan Jogia
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Scuderia Ferrari Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton has taken significant steps to improve his team's performance through crucial technical advice and feedback. However, this raised the question of whether the seven-time world champion is being heard more than his teammate, Charles Leclerc, at Ferrari.
Being a multi-time world champion, Hamilton is aware of the ingredients that go into a team to develop a championship-winning car. He has been struggling with the team's current SF-25 F1 car, since it wasn't developed with his input.
To make a difference, he has been preparing documents for Ferrari and its top management on his driving preferences and also on the direction of development Ferrari should adopt for the 2026 car. In addition, the Briton has been having meetings with the bosses at Ferrari and his engineers to structure the team for more efficiency.
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Although Leclerc has been experiencing a better F1 season than his teammate, the extent of his participation in the quest to improve the car was unknown. Now though, the Monegasque driver has opened up on the topic and cleared the air on whether Hamilton has been carrying more technical influence in the team. He said:
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"At the end of the day we are both pushing to try and make Ferrari better. He's preparing his points, I'm preparing my points and then we are doing big meetings where we are both inside the meetings, and then we speak about those points that we want to improve.
"So, of course, we are aligned with everything together with the team, and everybody is pushing in the same direction so that there's no stress whatsoever."
Acknowledging the experience Hamilton comes with, Leclerc admitted that the 40-year-old driver's input was being looked at seriously since his first Ferrari race in Australia. He added:
"Obviously it's a unique point of view and Lewis had an incredible career, so these are things that we are looking closely. But it didn't only start now.
"It starts from the first race where you have the first points where things are different and you've got to get used to and other things that you want to change and this is part of the process.
"I don't think there's anything standing out now. Maybe it's the first time he said it, so that's why it makes such a reaction, but it's nothing particular to this moment."
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