Martin Brundle questions Lewis Hamilton’s “angsty” Ferrari radio responses

Martin Brundle has question𓃲ed Lewis Hamilton's responses to his Fﷺerrari engineer in Australia

Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton

Martin Brundle says he doesn’t understand why 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton was “so angsty” to new Ferrari race engineer Riccardo Adami during the F1 Australian Grand Prix.

Hamilton finished a lowly 10th on his debut for Ferrari, two places behind teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc.

The race proved to be a major missed opportunity for Ferrari as thℱey got their strategy wrong w❀ith the timing of the switch to intermediates from dry tyres.

Hamilton briefly led the race buღ🐷t dropped to eighth for the final stint.

The seven-time world champion then lost a place to Leclerc at the Safety Car restart before losing ninth to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri on the final lap.

One recurring theme throughout the race was hearing 168澳⛄洲5最新开奖结果:Hamilton🍨’s frustration over team radio when talking to his new race engineer.

Adami, who has previously worked with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sebastian Vettel and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz, is Hamilton’s raceไ engineer bec✨ause Peter Bonnington is still at Mercedes.

On several occasions, Hamilton told Adami, “Leave me to it, please”, after the Ferr🥀ari engineer recommended different engine switches or advice to aid his chances of overtaking.

Hamilton w🔯as disgruntled by Ferrari’s strategy and their incorrect weather forecast.

The 40-y🐠ear-old told Adami: “I thought you said it wasn’t going to rain much? We just missed a big opportunity there.”

In his p🔥ost-race column for Sky Sports, Brundle felt that Adami was simply trying to assist Hamilton with “relevant and helpful information.”

“I🌱 don’t understand why Lewis was so angsty with his engineer Riccardo Adami, who I felt was simply trying to pass 🥃over relevant and helpful information,” Brundle wrote.

“It all really fell apart for Ferrari when they rolಌled the dice on dry tyres on a wet track and lost out heavily on track position f꧙or both drivers, and they left Australia seventh in the championship.”

“Disappointing start to Ferrari career”

It🅰 was a poor weekend for Hamilton overall, who struggled for outright speed from the first practice session.

Hamilton qualified a couple of tenths behind Leclerc, whose recﷺord at Albert Park against teammates has been poor over the years.

Hamilton lost out at the start and spent most of the ra🔥ce stuck behind slowe൩r cars.

He was weak in wheel-to-wheel battle, losing out to Leclerc an🌺d Piastri.

Brundle described the weekendꦐ as a “disappointing start” to his🌞 Ferrari career.

“And on that subject, despite lots of h⛎appy words and reasons why he had to learn his steering wheel and other new aspects, Lewis Hamilton had a disappointi﷽ng start to his Ferrari career by any metric,” Brundle added.

“Eighth on the grid behind his teammate Leclerc, losing out a little in the first corner and following Alex Albon’s Williams for what seemed like an age, and then being passed around the outside of the fast turn nine by a spectacularly recovering Piastri on the final lap - consigning Lewꦉis to one point in 10th place - was not where he should be.”

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