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‘Ferrari started on 2019 car earlier than us'

With many pundits stating that Ferrari head to Melbourne as the team to beat, Lewis Hamilton reckons that is partially because they began working on their 2019 car earlier than Mercedes. Ferrari set the pace in pre-season testing, although only just. With the sandbags coming off on the final day and the C5 tyres going on, Hamilton finished a mere 0.003s down on pace-setter, Sebastian Vettel. The general consensus, though, is that Ferrari are the leading team heading into the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. And Hamilton feels that's because they started developing their 2019 car earlier than Mercedes after realising last year that their championship hopes for the year were fading...
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