Ferrari is “evaluating all options” when it comes to whether Lewis Hamilton’s race engineer Riccardo Adami will continue with the seven-time F1 drivers’ champion in 2026, according to team principal Fred Vasseur.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Corriere Della Sera at the Italian team’s end-of-season press debrief, the 57-year-old confirmed the Scuderia was open to changing things up on Hamilton’s side of the pit wall, after he endured a difficult first campaign in red.<\/p>\n
When asked whether Adami would remain Hamilton’s race engineer, the Frenchman responded: “We’re evaluating all options.”<\/p>\n
The 105-time grand prix winner’s seemingly fraught relationship with Adami was a prominent narrative across the year, with numerous team radio clips going viral of tense moments or miscommunications between the pair.<\/p>\n
It came amid Hamilton failing to score a podium finish all season, for the first time in his F1 career, as he slumped to finishing 86 points adrift of Charles Leclerc in the drivers’ standings.<\/p>\n
Now, Ferrari and the British driver head towards 2026 under considerable pressure to turn around the Prancing Horse’s fortunes, with no championship title being returned to Maranello since 2008.<\/p>\n
The reality of the first season together was a stark departure from the wave of optimism and anticipation that Hamilton rode to the Scuderia on, with the SF-25 also failing to live up to expectations.<\/p>\n
Speaking to media, including RacingNews365, Vasseur addressed what Ferrari and Hamilton must do to make strides, with those remarks further suggesting an openness to considering all available possibilities.<\/p>\n
“We have to tackle each point, and honestly, it’s also a matter of mindset, a matter of understanding each other… I’m speaking about one side of the garage, in this case, because with Charles, we know each other,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“But in this [Hamilton’s] case, it’s more to understand exactly what he needs, what he wants, and for him \u2014 the same for me \u2014 to understand exactly what he would like to do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferrari is “evaluating all options” when it comes to whether Lewis Hamilton’s race engineer Riccardo Adami will continue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-355659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-calendar","13":"tag-f1-live","14":"tag-f1-results","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-ferrari","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-lewis-hamilton","20":"tag-max-verstappen","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}