The major change Lewis Hamilton must make NOW to steer his Ferrari career back on track: F1 Confidential
Lewis Hamilton should part company with Riccardo Adami, his strangely faltering race engineer, now. Only partly because he is likely to do so in the end, and nothing will be served by persevering with patient loyalty.
The seven-time world champion has enough to contend with since moving to Ferrari - a slow car chief among his concerns, but also a new language and an alien culture as well as exacerbated expectation and a seam of serial underperformance - without communicating with his closest colleague as if at cross-purposes.
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