Motor racing-Hamilton says talk of friction with engineer "all noise" (0.41445783132530123)
<img src="https://thesun.my/binrepository/338x225/0c0/0d0/none/11808/XVIR/2025-05-29t143202z-291518137-up1el5t14dd6m-rtrmadp-3-motor-f1-spain_5256337_20250530091630.jpg"><p><b>BARCELONA:</b> Lewis Hamilton said he has a great relationship with Ferrari race engineer Riccardo Adami and continuing speculation about friction between them is just noise.</p><p>Terse radio exchanges at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, Hamilton’s race debut in the Italian Formula One team’s red overalls, raised questions in March and they resurfaced in Monaco last Sunday.</p><p>Then the seven-times world champion was heard asking Adami over the team radio “are you upset with me?” after the Italian did not respond to earlier messages.</p><p>Ferrari explained that silence as being due to radio and signal problems in a race that features cars speeding through a tunnel.</p><p>“It was literally just there were areas where we had radio problems through the race, and I did not get information that I wanted. We spoke afterwards,“ Hamilton told reporters at the Spanish Grand Prix on Thursday when asked for clarification.</p><p>“There is a lot of speculation and most of it is BS. We have a great relationship. </p><p>He is amazing to work with. He is a great guy, working so hard, we both are,“ added the Briton, who joined from Mercedes in January.</p><p>“We don’t always get it right every weekend. Do we have disagreements? Yes, like everyone does in relationships. But we work through them. We are both in it together.</p><p>“We both want to win a world championship together and we are both working towards lifting the team up. So it is just all noise and we are not paying attention to it. It doesn’t make a difference to the job we are trying to do.”</p><p>Hamilton said he and Adami, who previously worked with four-times world champion Sebastian Vettel and Spaniard Carlos Sainz, were learning more and more about each other and adapting the way they worked.</p><p>“He has worked with lots of different drivers before. We don’t have any problems whatsoever,“ said Hamilton, who won a sprint race in Shanghai but is otherwise yet to stand on a podium for Ferrari.</p><p>The Briton finished fifth in Monaco, with teammate Charles Leclerc second in his home race.</p><p>Hamilton’s radio comments also put him in the spotlight in Miami when he suggested sarcastically that the team “have a tea-break while you’re at it” as he waited for a strategy call. </p>
