Following several disagreements between driver and engineer in 2025, Hamilton’s first season in red, Ferrari announced last week<\/a> that Riccardo Adami was being moved to another part of the company.<\/p>\n A replacement has not yet been confirmed, but Hamilton is set for his first laps in the 2026 Formula 1 car next week for the private preseason test in Barcelona.<\/p>\n “I’m surprised it probably didn’t happen a bit earlier, really, judging by all the things that were going on last year,” Brundle, a former F1 driver-turned-pundit for Sky Sports F1, said on Wednesday.<\/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 – Mercedes reveal new F1 car, major Microsoft deal<\/a> Ferrari will launch its 2026 car on Friday, ahead of the first behind-closed-doors test. There will then be two three-day tests in Bahrain before the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on March 8.<\/p>\n Hamilton finished sixth in the championship in his first season for Ferrari, the first in his illustrious career without a single podium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 22, 2026, 08:36 AM ET Martin Brundle has backed Ferrari’s decision to change Lewis Hamilton‘s race engineer,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-426108","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-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426108","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=426108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Lewis Hamilton will not have Riccardo Adami as his Ferrari engineer this season.\u00a0Bryn Lennon – Formula 1\/Formula 1 via Getty Images<\/p>\n
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