Ferrari star Lewis Hamilton had a disastrous 2025 season with the Maranello-based staff. Throughout his debut season with the Scuderia, the Briton had a fairly jarring relationship together with his race engineer Riccardo Adami. As Ferrari just lately got here out and introduced a change of race engineer for the seven-time F1 champion going into 2026, the followers got here out and reacted to the information.
Lewis Hamilton joined Ferrari forward of the 2025 season and reportedly needed to carry his former race engineer, Peter Bonnington (Bono), with him. Nevertheless, Bono determined to stick with the Silver Arrows, and Riccardo Adami was designated as Hamilton’s race engineer for 2025.
There was a visual communication problem between Hamilton and the race engineer in 2025, with the Miami GP dialog when the Briton demanded that Leclerc let him move being the spotlight. The identical led to the notorious “have a tea break when you’re at it” feedback.
Only a week earlier than the 2026 automotive launch, Ferrari got here out and introduced that Riccardo Adami has been assigned to a special function, and that Hamilton could have a special race engineer for the upcoming season. Followers took to the social media platform X and reacted to the announcement as they wrote,
“One much less excuse for Hamilton…Go Charles..”
One other commented, “Lewis is the issue, not the engineer. Greedy at straws”
“We’ll discover out quickly sufficient if Adami was really a part of the issue…” talked about one other consumer
Some followers identified how each Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari want to enhance going into the 2026 season, whereas others questioned why it took Ferrari a complete season to exchange the race engineer when the communication points had been as clear because the sky.
“Gonna want greater than a brand new engineer to repair Hamilton and Ferrari 😅” commented a consumer
One other talked about, “If you happen to ever hearken to their radio, I m shocked that he lasted for the entire season”
“Give him a great automotive,” wrote one other fan
Ferrari’s assertion as Lewis Hamilton’s race engineer, Riccardo Adami, strikes to a Driver Academy function
Questions round Riccardo Adami’s future with Lewis Hamilton because the race engineer began popping quickly after the 2025 season ended. Staff Principal Fred Vasseur hinted at potential modifications throughout the low season as he claimed that something was potential when questioned a few change of race engineer for the Briton.
Ferrari got here out in January 2026 and launched an official assertion about Riccardo Adami transferring into a brand new function, which learn,
“Scuderia Ferrari HP declares that Riccardo Adami has moved to a brand new function throughout the Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy as Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy and Check Earlier Vehicles Supervisor, the place his intensive trackside expertise and System 1 experience contributes to the event of future expertise and to strengthening efficiency tradition throughout this system.”
Ferrari will announce Lewis Hamilton’s new race engineer in the end.
Edited by Pranay Bhagi