Hamilton Miami Radio and Television Series From Ferrari's Lack of Steps

Miami Gardens, Florida – From the moment Lewis Hamilton first put himself in the Ferrari cockpit, it is inevitable that each of the Red 44's radio transmissions, strategy decisions and race results will be carefully checked to the n-level. This kind of thing is inevitable when the most successful drivers in Formula One history join the sport’s most famous team.

In his red race in Australia, relatively simple news was related to the use of the “K1” setting on the steering wheel, even though Hamilton responded to new racing engineer Riccardo Adami with the word “please.” A week later, in the second round of China, F1's World Feed failed to play a message, and Hamilton was willing to give up his position on teammate Charles Leclerc, meaning it was missing due to the rest of the pits to the car radio, which sounded like the seven-time world champion's voice and the decision to swap was out of place.

Then on Sunday, at the South Florida Heat, accompanied by one of Ferrari's most convincing performances of 2025, a series of broadcast messages boiled down to controversy over team orders, which fell at the Miami Grand Prix.

what happened?

The biggest problem with depriving Soundbites and Ferrari in Miami is lack of performance. Radio messages, suspicious strategic calls, and any frustration during or after the game are attributed to a lack of competitive lap times throughout the weekend. The game category was browsing at a glance, which was the worst performance of the weekend, with Leclerc ranked seventh and competition champions Oscar Piastri and Hamilton ranked eighth.

Instead of fighting with Mercedes and Max Vestapon’s Red Bull, Ferrari became the last podium behind the dominant McLaren, but instead found himself struggling to delay Carlos Sainz in a slower situation of two Williams, while Alex Albon in the sister car took a nine-second lead at fifth-place Leclerc. For a team that was only 14 points behind last year’s builder champion McLaren, this is the latest in the 2025 Italian clothing line “Brutal Wake Call”.

The gap between Ferrari's pre-season expectations and the realities of the field only exacerbated tensions when Leclerc and Hamilton found themselves sharing the same track in the second half of the race. Choosing different strategies that align with their respective grid positions (Leclerc took eighth place on mid-tire and Hamilton started the eighth time on Hards), the two prancing horses began to converge around 32 laps on lap 32 and ranked first with each other on lap 38.

Hamilton's distance from the hard dock to the cultivation ground during the virtual safety car was higher, while Leclerc changed from medium to hard under normal racing conditions after a few laps. They ran in tandem on lap 34, taking a tag team-style overtake at Sainz, where Leclerc rushed to Williams with a 1-turn in the first leg, which opened the door for Hamilton to slip through the same corner.

Hamilton ran on softer composite tires with more direct performance potential, and at that stage the two Ferraris were faster, but he knew with caution that he was damaging the tires by running in teammates’ aero awakening. Andrea Kimi Antonelli ranked sixth, and for five seconds on the road, Hamilton felt that if he could pass Leclerc, he would hit the Mercedes driver.

“I just burned my tires behind him. Do you want me to sit here all the game?” Hamilton said on the team radio on Lap 36.

Adami replied: “We will be back to you.”

In recent years, this kind of communication has been a feature of the Ferrari team radio station. When the incident unfolds at 200 mph, the driver is in the cocoon in the cockpit and wants to make an immediate decision just to let the pit wall effectively put it on hold.

As Sainz still lags by 1.5 seconds, Ferrari strategists fear the exchange will slow the car down and undo the good job of double overtaking on lap 34.

Adami finally called and said, “We want to keep Drs to Charles and keep going like this. Carlos is behind 1.5.”

As Hamilton's speed advantage over his teammates became unquestionable, Ferrari finally agreed to swap lap 38, but by then Hamilton seemed to be losing patience.

He said: “This is not a good teamwork, that's what I'm going to say.” “In China, I'm leaving…”

Adami interrupted: “We change the car.”

Hamilton quipped, “You need some tea to take a break during your break, come on!”

Hamilton was able to cut the gap in half for the next 12 laps, lowering Antonelli to 2.5 seconds, but with each pass, his tire advantage over Leclerc was weakening, and on lap 44, the two Ferraris were split into a second again. Until the 53rd round of lap 57, Leclerc experienced the same frustration as Hamilton.

“I think we should have more discussion before the swap because you're trying to go to the end with these tires,” Lake Lake said after the game. “I tried to do it well with the tires and then everything was tricky.

“I didn't expect Carlos to be so close (behind). All of this makes the situation even more tricky, but I think we have a lot to see. As I said, we need to take a step, we need to be strong enough that we do better whenever we find ourselves in these situations.”

Hamilton said the circle spent behind Leclerc had taken some life from the tires, but it is still doubtful whether he would have seized Anthony Rie's pace had he been enacted earlier.

“I lost a lot of tires, and that's OK,” he said. “We were fighting for position at the end of the day, but if we could do Valtri (Bottas, former Hamilton teammate at Mercedes), it would be great, and I did it in Budapest a few years ago, then go and see if I could catch him, if I couldn't, and it didn't work in the end.

“Whether we can surpass Mercedes or not, at the end of the day, we are not fast enough. This may be the source of frustration.”

Hamilton's tone of the message to Adami during the game added: “It's not even anger. It's not about 'feff' and 'blinding' and so on. It's like, “make a decision!” “You were sitting in the chair, you made the decision in front of you, that's what I look like, I am me, we're panic, we're trying to keep the car on the track.”

When he was told that his news was the funniest part of the game, Hamilton laughed and said, “Jeez, I mean, at least PG, right?

“I'm still in my stomach fire. I really feel like there is something there. I won't apologize for being a fighter. I won't apologize for still wanting it.

“I don’t think the decision was fast enough. It’s for sure that during that time, you liked, ‘Come on!’ but it was really a problem with my team or Charles.

How did Ferrari explain this decision?

After the race, team principal Frédéric Vasseur met with Hamilton during a warm hospitality in Ferrari, talking through the event before his driver faced the media. The Frenchman, who has been closely related to Hamilton for more than twenty years, said the purpose of the chat was to explain the idea of ​​a trap, rather than a preemptive exercise.

“What I'm worried about is not that he has to talk to the TV, but that we need to make it clear that in this case he has to understand how I feel on the pit wall,” Vasseur said. “He can trust me, I can trust him, and so is Charles. I'm making a decision for Ferrari when I have to make a decision.”

Hamilton also described the Sunday night meeting.

He said: “Fred came to my room. I just put my hands on his shoulders and was like, 'Man, calm down. Don't be that sensitive.' “I could have said something worse on the radio. You hear what others have said in the past.

“Some of it is ironic, but look, you have to understand that we are under tremendous pressure in the car. You will never get the most peaceful message in the fight.”

Vasil said the delay in the first exchange between the drivers was due to the team wanting to check if Hamilton had a real performance advantage due to the soft tires, or just benefiting from Leclerc's Drs series. Hamilton was within the second second of the second from the Leclerc on lap 35 to lap 38 (and therefore in the DRS range) when swaps, although Vasseur claimed to have lost only one lap when making the decision.

“Let's go straight to this point: It doesn't take that long,” he said. “It's a lap and a half or something like that. When we have two cars (not using the same strategy), I want to understand whether (Hamilton's car) lags behind Drs, the first thing is faster. It took us a lap.

He added: “Whether we (completed) 6-7, not 7-6 or 6-7 or 7-6, it's not a story for a day. I'm more eager to talk about why we're one minute behind McLaren.”

Can Ferrari turn the trend?

In the world of sports, it is rare to participate in real-time conversations with participants, such as those conducted on Ferrari’s team broadcast. Inevitably, in the midst of a fierce competition, they wrote some context on the page. It is also important to note that Hamilton's frustration stems from the team's strategic decisions and is therefore not directed at Adami himself. Despite conveying this information, despite conveying this information, he had no say.

Still, Ferrari's decision-making process seemed to be chaotic at the critical moment of the game, with both drivers fitting their frustration and defense rights.

“Lewis doesn't feel bad,” Leclerc said. “I also understand that Lewis is trying to do something different, so I'm grateful. If I were him, I would have done the same thing and tried to be more aggressive with the mid-sized tires.”

“We need to separate those two things. Yes, we need to address those (strategic) issues that might make us a position, but the other seven or six positions are attributed to the car and we need to make it better.”

On that news, Ferrari is united: The car is simply not fast enough to challenge on the frontline.

The upgrade kit for the upcoming Imola, Monaco and Spain is expected to arrive in time, and on Sunday, Hamilton hints at the problems his car had with disqualification from the Chinese Grand Prix because the problems he had were too low.

“There are some things that are making us back at the moment,” he said. “We have lost performance since China – it's there, it's just that we can't use it. Until we solve it for that, that's where we are.

“Nevertheless, for us, we're fighting Williams, so we're obviously not as fast as we want to. I really believe that when we solve some of the problems we're having with the car, we're going to be back in the fight with Mercedes with Red Bull.

“It’s not fast enough.”