Lewis Hamilton insists there’s “no drawback” between him and his F1 race engineer Riccardo Adami after one other race wherein their radio communications got here underneath the highlight.
The seven-time world champion recovered from a three-place grid penalty for impeding Max Verstappen in qualifying to complete fifth ultimately weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix.
Hamilton picked up his penalty after he acquired incorrect data from Adami, and there gave the impression to be additional miscommunication throughout the grand prix itself, prompting hypothesis and ideas the pair usually are not seeing eye-to-eye throughout the Briton’s thus far tough transition to life at Ferrari.
Chatting with media together with Crash.internet forward of the Spanish Grand Prix, Hamilton burdened he and Adami have a “nice relationship”.
“We’re continually studying increasingly about one another, we’re continually adapting to the best way each of us prefer to work. He’s labored with numerous totally different drivers earlier than. We don’t have any issues in any respect,” Hamilton stated.
“There’s quite a lot of hypothesis – most of it’s BS,” the 40-year-old continued. “In the end we now have an incredible relationship. He’s been superb to work with, he’s an incredible man.
“We’re working so onerous, we each are, and we don’t get it proper each weekend. Do we now have disagreements? Like everybody does in relationships however we work by way of them.
“We’re each in it collectively. We each need to win a championship collectively. We’re each working in the direction of lifting the staff up.
“It’s simply all noise and we don’t actually pay any consideration to it. It will possibly proceed if you’d like but it surely doesn’t make any distinction to the job we’re making an attempt to do.”
Lewis Hamilton explains ‘are you upset with me?’ message
An extra radio trade between Hamilton and Adami got here to mild following the race.
After Hamilton took the chequered flag and had been knowledgeable of his ending place and that he had “misplaced quite a lot of time in site visitors”, he requested: “Are you upset with me or one thing?” There was no response to this message.
Ferrari staff principal Fred Vasseur dismissed the slow-down lap message after the race.
“As a result of when the driving force is asking one thing between flip one and switch three, we now have to attend [until] the tunnel to answer, to keep away from to talk with him throughout the corners,” he informed media together with Crash.internet in Monaco.
“It isn’t that we’re sleeping, it isn’t that we’re having a beer on the pit wall, it is simply because we now have a bit of the observe, the place we agreed earlier than to talk with him.
“Actually, it isn’t a rigidity that the man is asking one thing. He is between the wall, he is underneath strain, he is preventing. I spoke with him after the race, he was not upset in any respect.”
Requested if he ever received a solution to his query, Hamilton replied: “There have been areas we had radio issues within the race. I didn’t get all the knowledge that I wished and yeah we spoke afterwards.”
