Riccardo Adami will now not function Lewis Hamilton’s race engineer at Ferrari because the Italian has taken up a brand new function inside the System 1 workforce’s younger driver programme.
Adami, who was beforehand the race engineer for each Sebastian Vettel and Carlos Sainz on the workforce, will now oversee the testing of earlier vehicles operating for the Ferrari Driver Academy and thus relinquishes his trackside function.
Hamilton was paired with Adami for his first season on the Prancing Horse, though the partnership was put beneath scrutiny when obvious early communication points have been publicly broadcast on F1’s world feed.
Whereas the 2 achieved early success with Hamilton’s dash race victory in China, the seven-time champion’s season petered out with a sequence of Q1 eliminations.
It had been urged that the connection between Hamilton and Adami had lacked the requisite chemistry owing to the occasional terseness over the radio, though this was denied by each driver and workforce.
Riccardo Adami, Engineer Ferrari
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A communique supplied by the workforce acknowledged that: “Scuderia Ferrari HP pronounces that Riccardo Adami has moved to a brand new function inside the Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy as Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy and Take a look at Earlier Automobiles Supervisor, the place his in depth trackside expertise and System 1 experience contributes to the event of future expertise and to strengthening efficiency tradition throughout this system.
“Scuderia Ferrari HP wish to thank Riccardo for his dedication and contribution to his trackside function and needs him each success in his new place.
“The appointment of the brand new Race Engineer for automobile #44 might be introduced in the end.”
Adami had been Vettel’s race engineer on the Toro Rosso workforce, and had additionally fulfilled the same function for the likes of Daniel Ricciardo, Sebastien Buemi, and Vitantonio Liuzzi inside the Faenza squad. He then reunited with Vettel upon leaving Toro Rosso in 2015.
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After 2025’s Australian Grand Prix, Hamilton responded to the assertions that radio site visitors between the pair urged that the 2 had not meshed, suggesting that folks ought to “go and hearken to the radio calls with others and their engineers, they’re far worse”.
Ferrari’s head of monitor engineering Matteo Togninalli added throughout the Qatar weekend that “what you see from exterior is worse” than the fact of their collaboration.
Regardless, Hamilton should type a brand new working relationship with one other engineer; it’s unknown whether or not Ferrari will search to advertise from inside, or rent externally.
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