Following his sensational lap in Saturday's qualifying which saw Charles Leclerc claim a shock pole position for Ferrari, the Monegasque endured a heartbreaking result at the Hungarian Grand Prix despite his impressive pace during his first two stints of the race. F1Technical's senior writer Balazs Szabo delivers his latest analysis in his column branded as F1MATHS.
I get the opposite impression. Adami is giving Hamilton the relevant information, he's telling him when to push to overcut Hadjar and Alonso, he's giving him the gaps and pace of the cars ahead, he's giving him pace targets, he's giving him BBAL and BMIG suggestions to control rear temps. The problem is that Hamilton is off the pace of the top 4 so he finds himself in no man's land between the top cars and the midfield. He keeps prodding Adami for some magical piece of information that would improve his race but there is no such thing when he's simply too slow, hence why Adami is sometimes reticent to answer. At the end of the day he finished as high as he could have given the pace.ringo wrote: ↑29 May 2025, 08:16Adami and Hamilton have a lot of gelling to do.
It's like the driver is talking to a wall just reading the race radio.
https://www.racefans.net/2025/05/26/hav ... monaco-gp/
The traffic did undo his, race but it seems Adami was overwhelmed and not able to answer what the driver queried.
I say they should keep Adami for continuity for this year, but he needs a lot of work.
Maybe someone like Rob Smedley or Bono would be more suitable.
I read through the transcripts, and Adami tells him little things, but gives him no big picture of the race at all. Doesn't explain why he's giving gaps to Max, or what others have done in terms of the race itself. He was even confused about why Adami was giving him a gap to Max, because Adami hadn't told him Max had not pit yet. Context like this matters during a race.Cs98 wrote: ↑29 May 2025, 09:14I get the opposite impression. Adami is giving Hamilton the relevant information, he's telling him when to push to overcut Hadjar and Alonso, he's giving him the gaps and pace of the cars ahead, he's giving him pace targets, he's giving him BBAL and BMIG suggestions to control rear temps. The problem is that Hamilton is off the pace of the top 4 so he finds himself in no man's land between the top cars and the midfield. He keeps prodding Adami for some magical piece of information that would improve his race but there is no such thing when he's simply too slow, hence why Adami is sometimes reticent to answer. At the end of the day he finished as high as he could have given the pace.ringo wrote: ↑29 May 2025, 08:16Adami and Hamilton have a lot of gelling to do.
It's like the driver is talking to a wall just reading the race radio.
https://www.racefans.net/2025/05/26/hav ... monaco-gp/
The traffic did undo his, race but it seems Adami was overwhelmed and not able to answer what the driver queried.
I say they should keep Adami for continuity for this year, but he needs a lot of work.
Maybe someone like Rob Smedley or Bono would be more suitable.
In general I think Lewis really likes a target in mind when he's driving, something to chase. But when he finds himself in no man's land without a concrete way move forward he becomes quite edgy and difficult to work with.
I fully agree. I think the Hamilton situation is getting quite embarrassing, frankly. Instead of getting frustrated to an excellent race engineer like Adami, a 40 years old man should look humbly into himself and ask why he can’t match at all his teammate performance, both in race and qualifying.Cs98 wrote: ↑29 May 2025, 09:14I get the opposite impression. Adami is giving Hamilton the relevant information, he's telling him when to push to overcut Hadjar and Alonso, he's giving him the gaps and pace of the cars ahead, he's giving him pace targets, he's giving him BBAL and BMIG suggestions to control rear temps. The problem is that Hamilton is off the pace of the top 4 so he finds himself in no man's land between the top cars and the midfield. He keeps prodding Adami for some magical piece of information that would improve his race but there is no such thing when he's simply too slow, hence why Adami is sometimes reticent to answer. At the end of the day he finished as high as he could have given the pace.ringo wrote: ↑29 May 2025, 08:16Adami and Hamilton have a lot of gelling to do.
It's like the driver is talking to a wall just reading the race radio.
https://www.racefans.net/2025/05/26/hav ... monaco-gp/
The traffic did undo his, race but it seems Adami was overwhelmed and not able to answer what the driver queried.
I say they should keep Adami for continuity for this year, but he needs a lot of work.
Maybe someone like Rob Smedley or Bono would be more suitable.
In general I think Lewis really likes a target in mind when he's driving, something to chase. But when he finds himself in no man's land without a concrete way move forward he becomes quite edgy and difficult to work with.
The "big picture" of the race was that Hamilton wasn't in the race at the front. Should Adami have come on the radio and told him he's too slow to catch anyone ahead and he's going to finish where he is? That would have been the truth, but I suspect that would have been met with discontent as well. Adami takes the blame for the impeding on Saturday but all this noise about the race feels more like general discontent at the lack of performance rather than a legitimate grievance. Ferrari gave him the right strategy and instructions to jump two cars, that's a resounding success at Monaco where it's impossible to overtake. I mean, look at 2021 where he started 6th and finished 7th stuck behind an Alpha Tauri.SiLo wrote: ↑29 May 2025, 11:51I read through the transcripts, and Adami tells him little things, but gives him no big picture of the race at all. Doesn't explain why he's giving gaps to Max, or what others have done in terms of the race itself. He was even confused about why Adami was giving him a gap to Max, because Adami hadn't told him Max had not pit yet. Context like this matters during a race.Cs98 wrote: ↑29 May 2025, 09:14I get the opposite impression. Adami is giving Hamilton the relevant information, he's telling him when to push to overcut Hadjar and Alonso, he's giving him the gaps and pace of the cars ahead, he's giving him pace targets, he's giving him BBAL and BMIG suggestions to control rear temps. The problem is that Hamilton is off the pace of the top 4 so he finds himself in no man's land between the top cars and the midfield. He keeps prodding Adami for some magical piece of information that would improve his race but there is no such thing when he's simply too slow, hence why Adami is sometimes reticent to answer. At the end of the day he finished as high as he could have given the pace.ringo wrote: ↑29 May 2025, 08:16Adami and Hamilton have a lot of gelling to do.
It's like the driver is talking to a wall just reading the race radio.
https://www.racefans.net/2025/05/26/hav ... monaco-gp/
The traffic did undo his, race but it seems Adami was overwhelmed and not able to answer what the driver queried.
I say they should keep Adami for continuity for this year, but he needs a lot of work.
Maybe someone like Rob Smedley or Bono would be more suitable.
In general I think Lewis really likes a target in mind when he's driving, something to chase. But when he finds himself in no man's land without a concrete way move forward he becomes quite edgy and difficult to work with.
Ferrari need a real look at the way they communicate to their drivers, and Lewis needs to be clear about what he wants from his engineer. I'm not sure if this is just a way they agreed to work initially, but it's not working.
Tbh I'm not sure if Hamilton was going as fast as he could at any point, he just got given a target and drove to it. I agree he was slower, but this wasn't about Adami trying to save face for him. I'm surprised these issues are still going on, Lewis needs to step up and tell him what he wants to hear before he is even sitting in the car.bluechris wrote: ↑29 May 2025, 12:37I think Adami tried to save Hamilton's face in Monaco... I mean, he was slower in comparison to Leclerc, and he tried to not say much and leave it as it is. Now if Hamilton doesn't understand that and is getting pissed, is something they need to discuss, and I really believe they did discuss it after the race.
I really like Hamilton, don't misunderstand me, but he is fed into a "LION" like Alonso said, and this lion is Leclerc... It's not an easy job to change teams with a whole different philosophy, different culture, different language, totally different car, and to have also an alien as the 2nd driver on the team. Hamilton needs too much time for certain, and that is obvious… i suppose the whole year will pass like this with small glimpses of equality between him and Leclerc in some races.
Next year, with total different cars that will be new to both drivers, the situation, I suppose, will be different, but IMO we need to give everyone some slack...
Yea, he's said a few times now its the first time he's had to use engine brakingatanatizante wrote: ↑29 May 2025, 14:32This message is coming from the qualifying session.
Is this the first time HAM has used the engine braking?
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It’s very well documented that Schumacher was pushed out and didn’t really want to retire that year. He was also still significantly faster than Massa, had the advantage of being the most familiar with the (for 2007, control) Bridgestone tyre, and would surely therefore have comfortably won in 07/08 by maximising points (rather than Kimi/Massa sharing victories). Hindsight is 20/20 but if you compare Schumi’s treatment as a 7 time world champion to that Hamilton was getting at Mercedes, clearly he was treated with very little respect/appreciation.Waz wrote: ↑29 May 2025, 09:14Let's not derail too far, but nobody forced Schumacher out and that 2011 car was garbage. Alonso went from nearly winning a title to being lucky to win 1 race. Upgrades throughout 2010 were hit and miss as well and by season end they were behind Red Bull and McLaren.
Costa got lucky at Mercedes.
My understanding of this is that MB didn't have a specific function, but likely integrated in the "strat mode" commands whereas the Ferrari control,is individually accessed as an discreet and set function.atanatizante wrote: ↑29 May 2025, 14:32This message is coming from the qualifying session.
Is this the first time HAM has used the engine braking?
https://postimages.org/
2011 car was garbage mostly because engine couldn’t do off throttle blowing as good as renault one. If it wasn’t for this gimmick, car would be solid.Waz wrote: ↑29 May 2025, 09:14Let's not derail too far, but nobody forced Schumacher out and that 2011 car was garbage. Alonso went from nearly winning a title to being lucky to win 1 race. Upgrades throughout 2010 were hit and miss as well and by season end they were behind Red Bull and McLaren.
Costa got lucky at Mercedes.
