MELBOURNE (AUSTRALIA), 11 Mar. (dpa/EP) –
The former Austrian pilot of Ferrari Gerhard Berger defended that the “aura” that surrounds the Italian team makes a formula 1 title with the ‘rampant cavallino’ is “the double difficult”, warning the British Lewis Hamilton that will be “hard and exhausting work”, although he acknowledged that he has “so much experience that it does not matter if it is not important if it is so much. equipment”.
“Being with Ferrari is double difficult as with any other team,” Berger told the German agency DPA before the Australian Grand Prix of this weekend, in which Lewis Hamilton will debut with the ‘Scuderia’.
The seven -time world champion announced in February 2024 that Mercedes would leave after 12 seasons to join Ferrari, the team with 16 builders’ titles, the last in 2008. “This aura (from Ferrari) makes you want to sit on the lounge and take the sun. But there is no time to sunbathe, it is a hard and exhausting work,” Berger said.
“It is always difficult to bring Ferrari to success. I did not get it in his day,” admitted Berger, who ran for Ferrari from 1987 to 1989 and from 1993 to 1995. However, the Expiler believes that Hamilton will fit well in the team. “He has so much experience that it does not matter if it is his first, second or third year with a team. He is about to see if it will be with Lewis Hamilton or with his partner Charles Leclerc,” he added.
Berger remembered the Tricampeón del Mundo Niki Lauda and seven times world champion Michael Schumacher. “Both were pilots who worked with the team day and night, they brought the right people and knew that they could use Ferrari’s resources in their favor,” he concluded.