'Hamilton's focus is on the result, not on the communication'
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Lewis Hamiltons Ferrari debut did not go the best way possible. After a chaotic Grand Prix, the seven-time world champion finished only in P10, and many pointed out his team radio messages with race engineer Riccardo Adami. Sky Sports pundit and former driver Karun Chandhok is not worried about their communication so far.
Hamilton has spent a lot of time working with Peter Bonnington, or 'Bono' as he is better known in the paddock, but with his transfer to Ferrari, he has to work with another race engineer. The Briton either asked for more information, or told Adami that there is no need for other messages. Chandhok believes that is just down to the time they have spent together so far.
"I think you have to understand that having been in the cockpit, the adrenaline is flowing. And at the end of the day, I didn't see anything wrong with that. I thought that was just symptomatic of a new driver engineer," he said on Sky Sports.
Still, the Indian sees that it is something the two have to work on to perfect. "I always think the best engineer-driver relationships are ones where they're able to just make decisions and communicate without words. You come to the car, you say, I've got front-end instability or rear-end instability in corner entry, and before there's a question there's already the answer. They need to build that relationship where they're finishing each other's sentences."
The issue is the result
Fernando Alonso or Nigel Mansell could already win their first Grand Prix driving for Ferrari, but Hamilton's debut with the Scuderia was not as straightforward, and he ultimately finished in tenth place, collecting a single point.
According to Chandhok, that's what matters for Hamilton. "He was behind Leclerc all weekend. He was behind by a couple of tenths in free practice here which is the same sort of gap that was there, and I think that's where the focus needs to be, not on how they communicate I'm not bothered about that, it's ultimately what is the result, that's what Lewis is focusing on," he concluded.
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