As it happens when a driver joins a new team Hamilton asked to replicate certain automatic functions as with the Mercedes in his Ferrari steering wheel. The external shape remains the shape but the display immediately shows similarities to Mercedes ‘ softaware as show by Gianluca Dalessandro on motorsport.com. Today we concentrate on the back of the steering wheel. In Bahrain testings the main difference between the Hamilton’s steering wheel and the Leclerc one (kept the same from 2022), was given by the gear paddles. It has been completely revised with a thinner shape and most important moved higher as on the W15. The clutch long paddle was very similar cause Ferrari adopted fingers print shape introduced by Mercedes at Barcelona pre season testing in 2017. Of course the fingers prints are slightly different. Already in Suzuka also the shape and the position of the long clutch paddle has been modified, moved higher and so closer the the gears paddles.
