Lewis Hamilton has claimed he won’t use the Ferrari simulator before the Canadian Grand Prix, taking issue with a lack of correlation between the virtual model and the real world.

“I’m going to have a different approach in the next race,” Hamilton said after the Miami Grand Prix.

“Because the way we’re preparing at the moment, it’s not helping. So we’ll see how that goes for the next race.

“But also, we’re going to another track with long straights, and we’re losing three to four tenths just on straight line speed. So that’s there, and it’s going to be there until we fix it.”

Hamilton believes that what he is experiencing in the Ferrari simulator compared to the real-life SF-26 does not align.

“Ultimately, it’s always correlation,” he added. “We go on it [the simulator], and then you get to the track, and the car feels different when you get to the track.”