Overview

• Hamilton’s radio exchanges with engineer Riccardo Adami were marked by missed responses and visible frustration during Monaco’s qualifying and race sessions.
• A team-sent misinformation about Max Verstappen’s lap status resulted in a three-place grid penalty for Hamilton after qualifying.
• Starting seventh instead of fourth, Hamilton finished fifth in Monaco, trailing race winner Lando Norris by 51.387 seconds and teammate Charles Leclerc by 48.256 seconds.
• Vasseur has downplayed the radio breakdowns as consequences of Monaco’s restrictive transmission zones, conceding that Ferrari remains the weakest of the front-running teams.
• Persistent performance gaps and language barriers have prompted fans to call for Hamilton to be paired with a new, preferably English-speaking, race engineer.