Should Hamilton ask for a change of his Ferrari race engineer?

Hamilton has been known for his harmonious relationship with Peter Bonnington, who was his race engineer at Mercedes and whom he nicknames Bono, and while the pair had their fair share of tense moments, that was nothing compared with the far-from-ideal relationship the seven-time Formula 1 champion currently has with Adami, who has been his engineer since he joined Ferrari ahead of the 2025 season.

From the beginning, there appeared to be a gap in communications between Hamilton and Adami, but that has always been played down by all parties involved with an insistence that time will cure the problem.

However, over the course of the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix, where Hamilton finished fifth, the radio communications between the driver and his engineer were very intense, with moments where questions from the Ferrari cockpit were received with silence from the pitwall.

At one point, Hamilton even asked his engineer whether he was upset with him, and while both the Briton and Ferrari insisted there was nothing wrong, claiming the severity of the situation was exaggerated.

However, former F1 driver Juan-Pablo Montoya begs to differ and delivered a radical opinion on the matter, offering Hamilton with some advice.

"I don't think I'm aware of everything," Montoya said. "These kinds of disagreements happen a lot, but at some point, Lewis is going to have to get angry and ask for a change of engineer.

"That's what Lewis needs at this point, because the attitude of an engineer who doesn't answer the radio sometimes... You have to be more professional than that, and such a person is not healthy for him, for the team, or for anyone in the end," he explained.

The Columbian, a veteran of 94 Grands Prix and a winner of seven, even added that the Ferrari management needed to step in and sort out the situation.

He added: "If I had been in charge at Ferrari, I would have pulled his [Adami's] ears and told him, 'You start again, and you will work in the office, because we are not interested in this kind of behavior.'

"There are tense exchanges between Verstappen and his race engineer. But they respect each other and always respond. Not responding is worse than anything for a driver," Montoya concluded.

Hamilton's start to life at Ferrari has been tough with his win of the Sprint Race over the Chinese Grand Prix weekend the only bright moment of his career in Red so far. He is sixth in the drivers' championship with 71 points.

(Quotes from SpinGenie)