Lewis Hamilton fires back at 'BS noise' about race engineer relationship

Lewis Hamilton respoꦓnds to "noise" surrounding his relationship with Ferrari race engineer Riccardo Adami.

Hamilton and race engineer Adami
Hamilton and race engineer Adami

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton insists there is “no problem” between him and his F1 race engineer Riccardo Adami a𝐆fter another race in which their radio communications came under the spotlight.&nbꦛsp;

The seven-time world champion recovered from a three-place grid penalty for impeding168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen in qualifying to finish fifth at las𝓡t weekend's Monaco Grand Prix. 

Hamilton picked up his penalty after he received incorr♛ect information from Adami, and there appeared to be further miscommunication during the grand prix itself, prompting speculation and suggestions the pair are not 🐭seeing eye-to-eye during the Briton’s so far difficult transition to life at Ferrari.

Speaking to media including ahead of the🍰 Spanish 🤡Grand Prix, Hamilton stressed he and Adami have a “great relationship”.

“We’re constantly learning more and more about each other, we’re constantly🌞 adapting to the way both of us like to work. He’s worked with lots of different drivers before. We don’t have any problems at all,” Hamilton said.

“There’s a lot of speculation - m♍ost of it is BS,” the 40-year-old continued. “Ultimately we have a great relationship. He’s been amazing to work with, he’s a great guy.

“We are working so hard, we both are, and we don’t get it right every weekend. Do we have disagreements? Like everyone does in relationships bu🌱t we work through them.

“We’re both in it together. We both want to win a championship togetherﷺ. We’re both working towards lifting the team up.

“It’s just all noise and we don’t really pay any attention to it. I🍌t can continue if you want but it doesn’t make any difference to the job we’re try🌜ing to do.”

Lewis Hamilton explains ‘are you upset with me?’ message

A further radio exchange between Hamilton and Adamiꦡ came to light following the race.

After Hamilton took the chequered flag and had been informed of his finishing positi🔯on and that he had “lost a lot of time in traffic”, he asked: “Are you upset with me or something?” There ﷽was no response to this message.

Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur dismisse🎉d the slow-down lap message after the race.

"Because when the driver is asking something between tur🅺n one and turn three, we have to wait [until] the tunnel to reply, to avoid to spe🐈ak with him during the corners,” he told media including in Monaco.

"It's not th✤at we are sleeping, it's not that we are having a beer on the pit wall, it's just because we have♚ a section of the track, where we agreed before to speak with him.

"Honestly, it's not a tension that the guy is asking something. He's be🦂tween the wall, hꦅe's under pressure, he's fighting. I spoke with him after the race, he was not upset at all.”

Asked if he ever got an answer to his question, Ham🐟ilton replied: “There were areas we had radio problems in the race. I didn’t get all the information that I wanted and yeah we spoke afterwards.” 

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