{"id":75274,"date":"2025-05-05T01:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T01:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/75274\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T01:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T01:47:08","slug":"tea-break-tempers-flare-between-lewis-hamilton-and-ferrari-at-miami-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/75274\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Tea break’ tempers flare between Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari at Miami GP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team orders became the story of a difficult Miami Grand Prix for Ferrari, as Lewis Hamilton let his frustrations be known.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moved ahead of team-mate Charles Leclerc and swapped back again, Hamilton<\/a> and his Ferrari race engineer Ricciardo Adami were involved in several tense exchanges on Grand Prix Sunday in Miami, which included Hamilton sarcastically telling his team to \u201chave a tea break\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari clash: Frustration justified?<\/p>\n

It was a challenging experience for Ferrari in Miami, as despite a P3 finish for Hamilton in the sprint after a genius slick tyre call<\/a>, the Scuderia lacked pace compared to McLaren, Red Bull and Mercedes, with Leclerc crossing the line P7 and Hamilton P8.<\/p>\n

But, it was far from an uneventful drive to the chequered flag for the team and their drivers, the frustration for Hamilton beginning with Adami\u2019s choice of timing to communicate.<\/p>\n

\u201cStop talking to me while I\u2019m freaking [in] battle, man! Geesh! In the braking zone you\u2019re talking to me!\u201d Hamilton vented.<\/p>\n

Having started on the hard tyre, Hamilton moved to mediums at the sole pit stop and when he started to come up behind Leclerc on the hards, the seeds for team orders were sown.<\/p>\n

Hamilton: \u201cHow far are people ahead of Charles? I\u2019m just burning up my tyres behind him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adami: \u201cUnderstood. Antonelli is 6 seconds ahead of Charles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamilton: \u201cSo you want me to just sit here [behind Leclerc] the whole race?\u201d<\/p>\n

Adami: \u201cI\u2019ll come back to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ferrari\u2019s verdict was not one which pleased Hamilton, as they ordered him to hold station and benefit from Leclerc\u2019s DRS.<\/p>\n

Adami: \u201cWant to keep DRS to Charles. Go ahead like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamilton: \u201cArgh\u2026 You guys are\u2026 This is not good teamwork. That\u2019s all I\u2019m gonna say!\u201d<\/p>\n

Next, Hamilton brought up the Chinese Grand Prix \u2013 Round 2 in F1 2025 \u2013 where he yielded to Leclerc.<\/p>\n

Hamilton: \u201cIn China I got out of the way when you were on a different strategy!\u201d<\/p>\n

That would convince Ferrari to order the swap, not that it improved Hamilton\u2019s mood.<\/p>\n

Adami: \u201cWe swap the cars\u2026 We swap\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamilton: \u201cAh! Have a tea break while you\u2019re at it! Come on!\u201d<\/p>\n

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With this saga taking place over various laps, once Leclerc had let Hamilton through into P7, the closest target \u2013 Antonelli in the Mercedes \u2013 was almost five seconds ahead.<\/p>\n

Adami: \u201cAntonelli 4.9 ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamilton: \u201cWell now I\u2019ve used all my tyres!\u201d<\/p>\n

The pursuit rolled on for Hamilton.<\/p>\n

Hamilton: \u201cAm I catching or not?\u201d<\/p>\n

Adami: \u201cNeed a 30.7 to catch in 6-7 laps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamilton: \u201cLet me know where I\u2019m losing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adami: \u201cYep. Antonelli 31.7 last lap.\u201d<\/p>\n

And still Hamilton closed, but crucially, Leclerc was not dropping back, he was right there on Hamilton\u2019s rear wing as Antonelli came into view.<\/p>\n

Hamilton: \u201cGap ahead?\u201d<\/p>\n

Adami: \u201c2.8. Tight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, Leclerc was growing frustrated behind Hamilton, triggering Ferrari to order a reversal of the swap.<\/p>\n

Adami: \u201cWe\u2019re gonna swap the cars in T17.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamilton: \u201cSo you don\u2019t think I can catch up or what??\u201d<\/p>\n

Adami: \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The problem was, Ferrari told Leclerc of this plan before they informed Hamilton, and did so too late, meaning it was on the next lap that Hamilton followed the order.<\/p>\n

As Leclerc pressed on, Hamilton came under pressure from the driver he replaced at Ferrari, Carlos Sainz, now driving what was a competitive Williams in Miami.<\/p>\n

That led to one final, sassy message from Hamilton.<\/p>\n

Adami: \u201cSainz 1.4 behind.<\/p>\n

Hamilton: \u201cYou want me to let him past as well?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sainz did give it a go at demoting Hamilton a further position, his effort resulting in contact as he sent a lunge down the inside on the final lap into Turn 17, hitting Hamilton who was able to keep the Ferrari under control, power out, and cross the line P8.<\/p>\n

A \u201cgood effort out there, good job\u201d verdict from Adami received no response from Hamilton.<\/p>\n

Read next \u2013 Miami GP: Piastri continues winning streak after more Verstappen v Norris fireworks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team orders became the story of a difficult Miami Grand Prix for Ferrari, as Lewis Hamilton let his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,997,4884,225,998,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-75274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-ferrari","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-home-page","13":"tag-lewis-hamilton","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114452708932087848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}