{"id":436331,"date":"2026-01-25T10:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436331\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:16:11","slug":"brundle-says-hamilton-race-engineer-swap-should-have-happened-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436331\/","title":{"rendered":"Brundle says Hamilton race engineer swap should have ‘happened earlier’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin Brundle<\/a> suggests that Lewis Hamilton<\/a>‘s Ferrari<\/a> engineer swap should have happened sooner, claiming that “something needed to change.”The former F1<\/a> driver and Sky Sports presenter shared his thoughts on Hamilton’s engineer swap with Riccardo Adami <\/a>stepping down from the position ahead of the 2026 season.Adami was Hamilton’s trackside engineer for his first year as a Ferrari<\/a> driver, and the pair navigated through friction throughout the season.”I’m surprised it probably didn’t happen a bit earlier.”- Martin BrundleDuring the Autosport Awards, Brundle <\/a>said: “I’m surprised it probably didn’t happen a bit earlier, really, judging by all the things that were going on last year.<\/p>\n

“Lewis needs to go there with a team so that at least they understand ‘Lewis speak’ when he’s inside the car, what it all means, and to interpret what Lewis really needs behind the wheel.<\/p>\n

“Just listening to the radio and watching the performance, although they obviously put a varnish on it through last season, something needed to change.”<\/p>\n

Adami has been moved from his trackside role to a different position within the team.<\/p>\n

Hamilton had spent 12 years with Mercedes <\/a>before joining Ferrari<\/a>, and his time with Mercedes was spent with the same trackside engineer, Peter ‘Bono<\/a>‘ Bonnington.<\/p>\n

Bono retained his role as a senior race engineer with Mercedes, taking on Kimi Antonelli for his rookie season as well as becoming the Head of Trackside Performance at the team.<\/p>\n

\"Lewis<\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton will have a new voice in his ear in 2026 – Photo: RacePictures<\/p>\n

During the Barcelona test, Carlo Santi will fill in on an interim basis. Currently, there is no update on who Adami’s successor will be.<\/p>\n

Moreover, there are rumors that Ferrari<\/a> wants to bring in a former McLaren employee as Hamilton’s eventual race engineer.GPBlog\u2019s latest Paddock Update<\/p>\n

As the 2026 season draws nearer, our Paddock Update is the place to be.<\/p>\n

Follow and subscribe to our channels on YouTube and Spotify to stay up to date with all the happenings as they unfold, ahead of the first on-track action under the new Formula 1<\/a> regulations.<\/p>\n

Check out the latest episode of our Paddock Update here \ud83d\udc47<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Brundle suggests that Lewis Hamilton‘s Ferrari engineer swap should have happened sooner, claiming that “something needed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,13275,817,35119,826,813,816,823,22298,85],"class_list":["post-436331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-martin-brundle","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436331","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=436331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}