according to the information gathered by AutoRacer 🇮🇹, Lewis Hamilton and Riccardo Adami had a very positive end-of-year dinner and there is no reason to believe they won't continue together in 2026.
- An ERS engineer will join the pit wall to help the driver manage the new, more complex power unit, solely for the electrical strategy part. This is an addition that will concern Hamilton, Leclerc, and probably all other teams. It does not replace, but enhances communication options with the drivers.
What do you guys think ? I am on the fence. I understand if there is a new engineer, there will be a learning curve for both and that might take time to deliver the results. However, we all have heard the radio to know that the communication leaves a lot to be desired. 😭
People need to understand race engineer’s only role is not communication. Maybe he is a beast in other parts of his role and communication is his weaker side. I am trusting him, for ferrari wcc in 26.
Remember Seb was the reason he’s at Ferrari. Soo he must have something he provides to the team. Your right, even though his communication is terrible, he probably provide value away from the track that just can’t be replaced. I loved bono too, but there was plenty of times where Lewis got upset with him. I think Adami just needs to take some leadership communications classes funded by Lewis lol
But Bono could ease Hamilton's emotions at times. Adami...!? It's the opposite.
It's terrible, I trust Hamilton, but Adami makes ME want to kill myself, I can't imagine what Hamilton is feeling like.
Obviously if the car is better it'll be less of an issue, but Bono was always such a vital part of Hamilton's success.
He would pull Lewis out from the darkness when he got depressed.
Wealth of knowledge means nothing if you can’t communicate and calm the driver well. He seems to be helping Ham technically but it’s off at times with miscommunication. Like penalty, losing time, strike on track limits..
People need to understand that having a race engineer who is that incredibly bad at communication is a handicap, no matter what his other skills are.
He’s a beast in other areas???? wtf
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Then why not move him to a different role where his weakness of communicating doesn’t drag the whole team down?
Hard disagree.
Communication with the driver is not merely one attribute among many for the role, it’s central to race engineer work and what uniquely differentiates it from other technical roles he could alternatively be placed in.
If he is a beast in other areas he should be in a technical role where those areas are the focus, and where he doesn’t need to be put on the end of Lewis’ radio. His work on those areas can then feed into what is ultimately communicated to Lewis by a competent race engineer.
Ferrari needs to understand that race engineer and how they communicate with the driver is THE most important role DURING the race. A good race engineer can make a driver better. A bad race engineer will ruin everything. The rest of the world can see Adami and Hamilton are not working well together. Not sure why Ferrari does not see this.
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The copium is incredible
is lewis hamilton a child? No? Then why do you guys act like you should be picking his surrounding? The guy is a grown man perfectly capable of taking his own decision and if he had a very positive end of dinner with him then it means hamilton is perfectly fine with continuing with adami.
Good comment, but Fred should have done a process of having Lewis interview three race engineer candidates to see which one he vibed with before the season started.
Thats what people want everything around him to change. Like hes the best driver in f1 we need to stop tryna blame everything but him.
They might be opinions based on incomplete information but it’s the information we have to work with, and there’s still plenty of it. Team radio is a very conspicuous window into the driver / race-engineer dynamic.
Plenty of adults who are capable of making their own decisions make unwise decisions. This may or may not be one of those times. You seem to think people having opinions on Adami equates to expecting to make Lewis’s decision for him. I don’t agree with that evaluation.
I think it’s perfectly reasonable to speculate on Adami as a race engineer, and to discuss our views on why he should / shouldn’t continue. That’s different to feeling entitled to pick Lewis’ engineer for him. That decision is obviously with Lewis, but can still have an opinion based on what we see and hear, as interested observers.
"Oh no, people talking about a driver's decision during off-season in a sub dedicated to the driver!!!"
You control what you comment on, you don't have to join the discussion if you don't want to.
Exactly i control what I comment, and if i find out that you guys are acting too much like you are Hamilton mom i have total control on saying it to you. Unless behind that "control" argument you just want to deny people going against what y'all say?
What? Just speak French so we can actually understand you, your English is atrocious.
Sounds like skill issue, you might be overestimating your English comprehension skills
The radio messages have been awkward at times, but we only get a fraction of them unless we watch onboards of every race. We don’t have the full picture like Hamilton does. If he wanted a a change, I’m sure he would have some input, and this would be the time to make it.
If Lewis signs off on it, then who are we to judge?
Have you heard of any good radio messages between them ? No. Its because only the bad radio messages were the ones that were broadcasted to you because negative news gives clicks.
And that is just the radio messages. A race engineer does so much more than just man the radio during sessions. There is so much more that we as fans never get to see or hear.
I watch his onboards every race… I would say the messages that don’t get played are still overwhelmingly negative.
Unfortunately I agree.
I trust Hamilton, but Adami does not have the ability to push him or make him feel like he can achieve the greatness he's achieved in the past.
Bono pulled it out of him, constantly, when Lewis would have a spin or get damage on lap one and his spirit was crushed for a race, Bono would will Lewis back into a podium by convincing him he can do it.
I just can't ever imagine Adam being able to achieve the same.
Rather than replacing him, I'm surprised he hasn't gotten classes to get better at the language he's been speaking for years now. Adami can do better just by taking basic 3 month english classes.
And Lewis Italian. However We are checking ain’t on Lewis lol 😂
Adami and Lewis would both fail a chemistry class group project. I’m sure he misses Bono.
He is probably a good engineer but they need to learn to communicate with each other. It’s like any other relationship. You don’t just treat your coworkers any kind of way. I think this will allow them time to relax think focus on being a team within the team like the pit crews.
If Lewis is cool with it maybe they are making off season headway
The man barely speaks English, it’s ridiculous at this level
Idk about you, but if communication is bad after a year in my relationships I’d be cutting them off.
well that's why you're not lewis Hamilton
I honestly believe he isn’t sabotaging. They both need to look at it from each other’s perspective and it makes the world of difference.
If he used 10% more thought in his actions he could easily come up with code words and talking points together with Lewis to lighten the load of the communication barrier.
He has to want to do it. Both he and Lewis should be having these conversations behind closed doors on how they handle communication. We should never have heard either of them out burst over team radio in anger or frustration at each other.
They weren’t acting as a unit. Lewis and Bono understood each other’s intent.
Adami must be an absolute beast behind the scenes that doesn't come over during the radio.
Welp! 2027 is gonna be our year! The terrible results speak for themselves. Change something. Maybe Lewis plans on mastering Italian.
No, he needs to go. He has proven he can’t do the job. Seb Carlos and now Lewis. How many chances does a person get. We all hear the radio.
I am at a loss. Battling your engineer for details of ANYTHING while taking turns at 180 isn't productive. I know Lewis is a different kind of personality, but I can't understand this decision.
In F1, the driver is always more important than the race engineer - something Adami seems to refuse to believe
What is Lewis doing?
That moment they had in better times with "San Diego"/"Santiago" was cute.
It feels hard to say much about this season's progress (or lack thereof) at all because, in retrospect, knowing they stopped developing the car so early on in the year probably did a huge number on everybody's mental state.
I think Ferrari has serious communication issues within the whole team, not only between the radio and the driver. I swear they're dot matrix printing out lap times and faxing the sheets level-by-level through the team hierarchy until it reaches the radio engineers or something completely nuts like that.
Brother, if Ferrari put him there is probably because he's the best at his job.
I'd fear finding out who the next best English speaker is in that organization
Hopefully Adami has lots of time for tea before next year!
What do I think? It doesn't matter what I think. We only see a very small amount of Lewis and Ricci's work together. And I'm pretty sure if Lewis wanted to change, he could.
Bear in mind that most if not all radio messages broadcasted are just snippets used to create drama most of the time, the comment from Alonso on the topic are completely right.
You know they have full driver radio feed , right ?
Fuuuuuuug! 😩
Maybe Adami is the Lance Stroll of the engineering world?
He is a good engineer. Only communication is a problem and if it improves it's good for lewis
Get Adami the fuck up outta there!
If Lewis took the high road again and was given some sort of choice and decided to co-sign another season with incompetent Adami then we can just write the entire season off.
I don’t think Adami cares whether Lewis succeeds.
Oh please. If Lewis wants him gone (as his engineer) then he'll be gone. Hamilton isn't going to keep Adami just to take some mythical "high road." Not a chance.
Maybe people need to accept that they actually have zero insight into the situation, despite being Reddit geniuses.
Netflix's Drive to Survive should take a closer look at the relationships drivers have with their teams. Would be interesting to see
I will quit F1 if he is
It would be bard for anyone to deal with a new engineer after 12 years with the same one. Adami is not bad, lewis jus needs more time to adapt.
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Ferrari race engineers talk to the drivers like they’re working remotely but not watching the race either.
Firstly, I think being a race engineer is probably a lot harder than it looks, you are fed a LOT of data and then need to know how much to relay to the driver. Secondly I don't think LH helped the situation as he was at times complaining both about too much AND too little information and generally in a bad mood due to his struggles. I think they will have both learned a lot from this year and if ferrari perform better next year the relationship will naturally get better, if they perform worse, then what does it matter anyway.
I also think a lot of the issues with Adami can be pointed to ferrari in general, and not listening to what the driver is saying, instead choosing to prioritise what the computers are saying. getting a new race engineer won't necessarily help with that. culture. Red bull do this really fucking well, they use common sense and driver input first, and especially in wet conditions it seems driver feedback comes first, whereas ferrari have a "we know best" attitude
I think you’re spot on. I think it’d be a similar situation if you threw Max in with someone that isn’t GP - it would sound terrible the first year, simply because they’ve worked out this amazing chemistry over the years.
I would be shocked if Adami stayed Lewis’s engineer.
So, its all okay because they had a good time during the end of season dinner? LOL.
I would be very surprised if Adami continues in his role. I think he will be "promoted" to a more internal role.
Hamilton needs a British engineer. He has no chemistry with Adami.
Did Lewis Hamilton and Riccardo .Adami ‘continue together’ in 2025?
If do, I had not noticed.
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