Lewis Hamilton slams his Ferrari race engineer after the F1 2025 Monaco GP by blasting his communication as “unclear”, following another tough weekend on the pit-wall.
Ricciardo Adami was already responsible for earning the seven-time Formula 1 world champion a grid-drop penalty at the Circuit de Monaco after falsely telling him Max Verstappen had backed off a push lap, when the Red Bull had, in fact, not.
That dropped the 40-year-old from fourth to seventh at a circuit practically impossible to overtake at, thus removing him from the picture when it came to competing for the victory.
So tensions between the pair may have already been higher than usual, but things only got worse in the 78-lap race when the 105-time Grand Prix winner asked for information on the cars ahead.
Adami failed to keep his driver updated throughout the race, leaving him lost as to where he was in the pecking order compared to the cars ahead such as Lando Norris, Charles Leclerc, Oscar Piastri and Verstappen.
Particularly, the Brit questioned if the gap ahead was still around 60 seconds to which his engineer responded by telling him their tyre compounds and lap times but not the actual gap.
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“You’re not answering the question,” Hamilton responded. “But it doesn’t really matter. I’m just asking, ‘Am I a minute behind?’”
Hamilton then, seemingly a bit frustrated after the race, doubled down on his stance as he slams his Ferrari engineer after the tricky F1 2025 Monaco GP on Sunday, May 25.
“The information wasn’t that clear,” Hamilton told Sky Sports F1 of Adami. “I didn’t know what I was fighting for.
“Was I fighting for the next spot ahead? I wasn’t anywhere near the guys in front.”
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The penalty for Hamilton on Saturday did the damage when it came to fighting the leaders as he dropped behind Racing Bulls’ Isack Hadjar and Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso on the grid.
Stuck behind them in the opening laps, Norris’ McLaren disappeared out of sight and took him mostly out of contention until a brief moment after the second round of pit stops.
As a result, he chose not to answer how the FIA’s plan to mandate two stops to try to spice the race up worked, adding he needed a lot of luck if he was going to get back into the picture.
“I can’t comment on the rest of the race,” Hamilton added. “For me I was in the middle of nowhere.
“I started seventh, was behind two cars for some time, managed to clear them, then I was in no man’s land after that.
“The gap was relatively big and I was not racing anyone. I needed a safety car or something but it didn’t happen. It was pretty straightforward from there.”
