The Ferrari “documents” Lewis Hamilton is meant to have drafted to drag the Scuderia back into title contention were put in front of him again in Madrid. Asked whether his current push for better communication inside the team had already been laid out in the memos he handed over through 2025, the seven-time world champion offered a shrug rather than an answer.
“I don’t remember. I don’t remember all the emails I sent last year, so I don’t remember if it was part of it last year.”
He described the work as longer-term:
“I think it’s a longer-term process. That’s not something we’ll just change into this weekend.”
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“It just doesn’t happen overnight. We’ll probably try things and it still won’t be good, but we’ll eventually get to the point we need.”
The memos themselves are no invention. Hamilton has been credited with sending Ferrari a series of written proposals during his first season at Maranello, on the car, on internal communication and on how race weekends are run. Ferrari have acted on parts of them, most visibly by swapping race engineer Riccardo Adami for Carlo Santi ahead of 2026.
What Corriere della Sera wrote
The exchange only happened because of a story out of Italy. Corriere della Sera reported that Hamilton had been pressing Ferrari to make trackside personnel changes and that his relationship with team principal Frédéric Vasseur had cooled. He answered on Instagram before he had even landed in Azerbaijan.
“I’ve seen some of the stories that have gone out and I want to clear it up here. I’ve never asked for anyone on my team to be replaced.”
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“Everyone I work with works hard every day, and their dedication is what moves us forward.”
Fifth race without a podium
The Italian story did not land in a quiet week. Hamilton retired from the Spanish Grand Prix with a brake-system failure at Madrid, his fifth race in a row without a podium. A round earlier at Monza he had called for clearer “rules of engagement” after Charles Leclerc pushed him wide at the opening corner, and pointed at his boss: “the buck starts with Fred.”
Hamilton sits third in the drivers’ standings on 191 points, 101 behind championship leader Kimi Antonelli with nine rounds to run. His only victory in red so far in 2026 came at Barcelona-Catalunya in June. Ferrari race next at the Baku City Circuit on Saturday, 26 September.
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