Key thing Hamilton has done at Ferrari that Schumacher avoided noted

L𓄧ewis Hamilton has done somethin෴g at Ferrari that Michael Schumacher never did.

Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher

In publicly criticising Ferrari,168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton has done something 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Michael Schumacher avoided during his time with F1’s most famous team, it has been claimed.

Seven-time world champion Hamilton’s disappointing start to life at Ferrari continued as he finished a low-key eighth at the Miami Grand Prix, one place behind teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Charles Leclerc.

Hamilton scolded Ferrari through a series of angsty radio messages as he became increasingly frustrating with his team’s hesitation after asking to be let past Leclerc, who was on a different tyre compound, in order to chase down 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Kimi Antonelli’s Mercedes a few seconds up the road.

Ferrari eventually told Leclerc to let Hamilton past, by ൩which point the 40-year-old Briton’s tyres were already past their best, resulting in the duo reversing positions following another long exchange between the cockpit and the pit wall.

Hamilton criticised Ferrari for “not good teamwork” and sarcastically suggested that the 𒁏team should “have a tea break” while they continued to deliberate their strategy options.

“There’s a long history, I think back to Alain Prost. I don’t remember Michae♌l Schumacher ever criticising Ferrari,♐” Ted Kravitz told the Sky Sports F1 show when analysing Hamilton’s sassy radio comments.

“But Sebastian Vettel certainly did, Kimi Raikkonen did – it🌺’s just that people didn’t think he was serious but he was deadly serious.

“There’s a long history of Ferrari drivers critici🌜sing Ferrari and it not w🦂orking out well for them.”

Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton

Kravitz proceeded ꩲto list several theories for why Hamilton was happy to publicly air his frustrations.

“I think the𒆙re are three scenarios that make Lewis Hamilton more happy to be a bit more sarcastic and sassy on the radio,” he continued.

"It𒐪's the first time that Lewis was on the end, potentially the wrong end, of the famous Ferrari strategy, 'we'll get back to you', that has amused us and infuriated the likes of Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc before.

"The first scenario is that he feels more secure and more happy in ꦬthe team, and everything is going well, and he's confident enough to say those things without feeling like there's going to be any comeback on him.

"Scenario two is that maybe he's not happy with what's going on and wants to help reform the team. He wants to help Ravin Jain, the head of strategy, to be a bi൲t sharper and interact with hiꦉs engineer.

"And the third scenario, is that m♒aybe Lewis doesn't care anymore, isn't happy, and is just happy to criticise them. I don't think that's the case but you could put it forward as a reason."

The comment which caught Martin Brundle’s attention

Martin Brundle felt Hamilton’s use of the ph✱rase “yꦆou guys” was particularly telling.

“Two words that c🦩aught my atꦉtention in Lewis’s transmission - you guys - because he’s a massive team player. That was quite a punchy thing to say, as in, it’s not us, it’s you,” Brundle said.

Kravitz suggested this comment was directed at Ferrari’s strategy department, rather than his race engineer Riccardo A𒆙dami.

"I think that's because the strategy depart☂ment is sꦆo compartmentalised at Ferrari from the race engineers,” Kravitz explained.

"You've got Ravin Jain, you've got his strategy department, and then [Leclerc's engineer] Brian Bozzi and Riccardo Adami, hav꧅e to default. They don't have any autonomy on strategy at all, whereas I think the likes of McLaren's Will Joseph and Tom Stallard, they're always discussing it, they're much more integrated.

"And why on earth, if they knew that there was a possibility of Lewis starting on th𒀰e hards and then going to the mediums, they should have seen this in a meeting on Sunday morning and pre🔥pared for it.

"I think it's more separated. I think💜 that's why he said, 'you guys'. He's saying: 'You strategy guys, in your little bunke😼r there, where it takes 10 minutes for anything to get through to you, hurry up, get on it!'"

Brundle went on to warn Ferrari not to behave like a foo♏tball team.

"Of course they're going to be super unhappy at Ferrari. They expect to be contenders for th𒊎e championship, especially with a line-up of Leclerc an🅠d Hamilton,” he added.

"What they mustn't do is behave like a football team and fire the manager, fire𒊎 everybody, and change for the sake of change. That won't improve anything at all. We have seen te▨ams make that mistake.

"They were the fifth-fastest team, and that's really a big issue. They've got to understand that. If they could change the car, they would, if they kn🧔ew what to do with it. There will be some heavy converꦚsations at Ferrari, there has to be."

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