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After coming in fifth at Monaco and a rather tense exchange between Lewis Hamilton and his Scuderia Ferrari engineer, people are talking. It’s only added fuel to the rumors that the driver is going to depart the Italian Formula One team at the end of the season, although it’s unsure if he will go to another or finally retire.
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Towards the end of the Monaco Grand Prix, Hamilton tried asking his race engineer Riccardo Adami if he was still trending a minute behind the leaders in the race as he whipped through the final laps. Instead of just answering the F1 champion’s question directly, Adami did something which has some fans baffled.
Adami told Hamilton about the tires and lap times of the three leading drivers: Norris, Leclerc, and Piastri. That wasn’t what Hamilton wanted to know, and he expressed that, saying the information he was given “doesn’t really matter.”
Finally, Adami provided the data Hamilton requested, but rather curtly, saying the three lead cars were 48 seconds ahead.
🚨 | Riccardo Adami missed Lewis Hamilton’s message
— La Gazzetta Ferrari (@GazzettaFerrari) May 26, 2025
Adami was already off comms and watching the data stream when Lewis sent his final radio message during the cool-down lap after finishing the Monaco GP.
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After finishing the race, things became more tense as Scuderia Ferrari got quiet and Hamilton asked, “Are you guys upset with me or something?” He never received a reply over the radio, although we wonder what the talk in the paddock and beyond has been.
One thing which really slowed down Hamilton was the three-place grid penalty officials imposed on him after he impeded Red Bull star Max Verstappen during the qualifying. However, Verstappen holds zero ill will towards Hamilton upon learning Scuderia Ferrari told Hamilton he was slowing down when in fact he was on a push lap.
Verstappen says the mistake was Scuderia Ferrari’s, but correctly predicted Hamilton would be punished for it.
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