Lewis Hamilton has issued a agency rebuttal of reviews in Italian media that he has pressed Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur for a workers overhaul on the Scuderia.
Hamilton has loved a far brighter 2026 season than his debut marketing campaign with the Maranello-based squad final 12 months, having taken one victory and an extra 4 podiums.
The Brit had been thought of an outsider for the World Championship till final weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, when brake failure noticed him retire early, leaving him 99 factors behind chief Andrea Kimi Antonelli.
Hamilton has beforehand talked about dialogue with Workforce Principal Vasseur with regard to adjustments throughout the group, and has additionally loved a extra frutiful relationship with race engineer Carlo Santi, who changed earlier engineer Riccardo Adami previous to the season beginning.
Italian publication Corriere della Sera has advised that Hamilton has continued this method, alleging that the seven-time World Champion has been angling for Ferrari to make additional personnel alterations.
However taking to his Instagram story, Hamilton swiftly rebuffed this report.
“I’ve seen among the tales which have gone out and I need to clear it up right here. I’ve by no means requested for anybody on my group to get replaced,” he wrote, with {a photograph} of a bunch of Ferrari workers members accompanying his phrases.
Hamilton continued: “Everybody I work with works onerous every single day, and their dedication is what strikes us ahead.
“I all the time attempt to empower and elevate folks to be the most effective variations of themselves or at the very least see the most effective in themselves.”
Hamilton can be seeking to make a return to kind subsequent weekend on the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, with Ferrari nonetheless aiming to make a recreation of the remaining rounds of the championship in opposition to its Brackley-based counterparts.
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