{"id":423140,"date":"2026-01-19T11:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/423140\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:37:12","slug":"lewis-hamilton-to-get-new-race-engineer-for-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/423140\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton to get new race engineer for 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton will work with a new race engineer for the 2026 season, Ferrari has confirmed<\/p>\n<p>There had been much speculation as to whether or not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\/racer\/9\/lewis-hamilton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> would continue to work with long standing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\/teams\/ferrari\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-uuid=\"64e6a3c3-0bec-4814-ad7e-0f7ddf418cdc\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"Ferrari\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari<\/a> race engineer Riccardo Adami for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>Now the team has confirmed that Adami will take a up a new role within the organisation for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-time world champion&#8217;s first year with Ferrari was marred disappointing results as he struggled to adjust to his new team.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation around whether or not Hamilton would continue to work with Adami for the 2026 was rife after a number of incidents indicating friction between the two, many of which were broadcast over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\/news\/1088110\/1\/lewis-hamiltons-awkward-radio-exchanges-riccardo-adami-continue-abu-dhabi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">team radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Friday, Ferrari said: &#8220;Scuderia Ferrari HP announces that Riccardo Adami has moved to a new role within the Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy as Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy and Test Previous Cars Manager, where his extensive trackside experience and Formula 1 expertise contributes to the development of future talent and to strengthening performance culture across the program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scuderia Ferrari HP would like to thank Riccardo for his commitment and contribution to his trackside role and wishes him every success in his new position.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The appointment of the new Race Engineer for car #44 will be announced in due course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our F1 Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton will work with a new race engineer for the 2026 season, Ferrari has confirmed There had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,817,826,823,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-423140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}