Lewis Hamilton frustration evident as Ferrari tanciaccess accengage lies with team | F1 | Sport

Lewis Hamilton materializes to still be adequitableing to his recent surroundings at Ferrari. The seven-time Formula One world champion was at the centre of all the pre-season excitement after completing the hugegest driver relocate in the sport’s history to the Prancing Horse.

But despite all the lofty foreseeations, he finishured an anticlimactic weekfinish in his debut race in the well-comprehendn red exposed of Ferrari. He regulated only a 10th-placed finish at the Australian Grand Prix, which produceed a one point for the Brit. With the changing weather throtriumphg up tricky racing conditions, Hamilton establish himself constantly grumbleing to his recent race engineer Riccardo Adami about the adviseation he was receiving over the team radio.

After Ferrari deserted their hazardous strategy to remain on parched tyres as the rain poured down in the latter stages, Hamilton couldn’t hide his frustration, saying over the team radio: “I thought you said it wasn’t going to rain much? Just missed a huge opportunity there.”

His irritateance materializeed to underscore how much he missed the rapport with his extfinished-time colleague Peter ‘Bono’ Bonnington, who selected to stay with Mercedes, where Hamilton enhappinessed so many accomplished years.

Hamilton said after the race: “I hung out for as extfinished as I could and got the direct at one point, but the guidance equitable in terms of how much more rain was coming was missing there. So I leank we missed out.

“The adviseation that I got was equitable that it was a unreasonableinutive shower, rapid, and at the time it was only in the last corner. So for me, I was appreciate, ‘well, if the rest of the track is parched then I can retain this on track if that’s coming’. But then more came.”

Hamilton regulated to finish the race, unappreciate six other drivers who fell victim to the stubborn conditions. In the finish, he was appreciative for that alone and said: “It was very tricky. It went a lot worse than I thought it would go.

“The car was reassociate, reassociate challenging to drive today, so for me I’m equitable appreciative that I kept it out of the wall becaengage that was where it wanted to go most of the time. But there’s a lot to consent from it. Just getting acclimatised to the recent power unit in the soaked conditions, all the settings on the steering wheel.”

Despite a challenging first day behind the wheel of the SF-25, he did also advise a more certain outsee, compriseing: “McLaren and Red Bull had solemn pace, so there’s toil to do, but we’ll dig meaningful. I’m seeing forward to getting back in the car next weekfinish in China.”