Hamilton gives Leclerc a hard time in the controversial new road-going Ferrari: “Don’t do that, please. Why are you doing this to me?”

Ferrari presented the new Ferrari Luce two days ago, the first street car 100% electric from the legendary firm of the ‘Prancing Horse’which has generated a lot of criticism on social networks for the brand of Maranelloespecially for its design, and even a drop in the stock market Milan the day after its presentation of 8.37%.

The firm’s stock market crash was enormous. If the day ended with a value of 309.70 euros per share in the Milan Stock Exchangeto drop to 288.20 at the close of the day after the presentation, something that represented an approximate loss of 4,860 million euros of capitalization since the previous closing.

The outpouring of criticism was enormous. Flavio Briatore He spoke with irony: “For me it has a great advantage. At least the Chinese are not going to copy it from us”. But much more forceful was the one who was president of Ferrari from 1991 to 2014, Luca di Montezemolo.

“If I say what I think it would hurt Ferrari. They risk destroying a myth. It makes me feel very bad.”said the former president of Ferrari about the brand’s first five-seater.

Then, the Italian ironically criticized the model by questioning the car’s own identity and even its ability to arouse international interest.

“I hope they remove ‘Il Cavallino’ (brand emblem) from that car,” he added. “That is a car that the Chinese are surely not going to copy,” he added when asked about the rise of the Asian market.

Hamilton has fun with Leclerc

All of this contrasts with the marketing action carried out by the two icons of Ferrari in F1its two pilots: Lewis Hamiltonny Charles Leclerc. They were in charge of uncovering the car, widely criticized for not following the idea and design line so characteristic and recognizable at first glance in Ferrari’s history. And they also tested it in Fiorano, at the Ferrari Circuit in Maranello.

At the end, both drivers highlighted the great sensations they had inside the Ferrari Luce for its performance, with a power of more than 1,000 horsepower, capable of reaching 100 kilometers per hour in 2.5 seconds and with a maximum speed of more than 310 km/h.

In fact, both drivers were recorded while sharing their first laps in the Ferrari Luce side by side. “Uh! nice, very nice”said Hamilton at the end of his round of turns with Charles as Co-pilot after squeezing him out on the track.

“Why are you making me do this?” Leclerc said next to him, sighing. And in this promotional video you could see how Charles Leclerc was not having a good time being the co-driver of a Hamilton who couldn’t stop laughing when he heard the reaction of Leclerc who asked him to stop and slow down. At this, Hamilton squeezed even harder while laughing.

“No, no, no, no… please don’t do this,” Charles said as Hamilton could be heard accelerating even more. “LH, LH, LH, LH, watch out, watch out… WOW! LH! Stop!”exclaimed a Leclerc who in a subsequent interview told his teammate that he had pushed like crazy.