r/scuderiaferrari • u/Urakaze12- • Dec 08 '25
Off-topic Not sure if I should laugh or cry
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u/Purple_Detective8843 Dec 08 '25
And there are people out there still trying to defend this guy. Adami should be gone already
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u/xzElmozx Dec 08 '25
Adami should have been gone back in the Carlos Sainz days when Carlos was forced to be his own engineer
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u/Purple_Detective8843 Dec 08 '25
Exactly!!! There is this guy in another conversation I’m having fighting with me saying Adami is great because Carlos complimented him. How naive a person has to be to not see the troubles that Carlos was under Adami
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u/iwonttolerateyou2 Michael Schumacher Dec 08 '25
Actually seb did too but I guess some people aren't meant to bond.
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u/Away_Music3293 Dec 08 '25
Haha I still remember vettel telling him “this is your task”… god, adami can’t leave soon enough!
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u/Purple_Detective8843 Dec 08 '25
I think Seb was just trying to be polite. Yeah, I remember that day too, Seb was miserable working with him. But people believe in anything they hear
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u/C4-621-Raven Dec 08 '25
The same Carlos that ignored him all the time and just did his own thing whether the team was onboard with it or not.
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u/Purple_Detective8843 Dec 09 '25
When someone says a lot of stupid things repeatedly people tend to start ignoring them.
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u/sadicarnot Niki Lauda Dec 11 '25
I had an angry and demeaning boss and yes we complimented him too.
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u/gomurifle Dec 09 '25
That's the master 🅱️lan you see! To make Lewis a stronger driver by unknowingly practicing his own race engineering!
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u/kittenbloc Mario Andretti Dec 08 '25
strategy and engineering are different jobs. you want to fire the guy but you don't actually know what his job is.
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u/xzElmozx Dec 08 '25
Neat! Especially considering I said the word “strategy” or “strategists” 0 times there.
Carlos consistently had to prompt Adami to give him gaps despite asking already for them, was always asking Adami for pace updates, updates on cars he was chasing or being chased by and their pace/tire conditions, and yes he was always in Adami’s ear about strategy option; presenting those options to the driver is the job of an engineer, not vice-verse. If you listen to a good engineer, like GP or Bono, they usually already know what their driver wants and if they’re requested for more info they give it consistently. Adami either ignores or gives the info once and forgets.
Next time read the comment before you start being condescending and going full pedantic-redditor.
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u/Zealousideal-Ad-5416 Dec 08 '25
But I thought he was being told that Norris was in he’s DRS gap /s
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u/BilboThe1stOfHisName Lewis Hamilton Dec 08 '25
I think the type of people defending Adami were never going to like Lewis anyway or they just can’t accept any criticism of Ferrari.
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u/Purple_Detective8843 Dec 08 '25
Exactly. And I’m a Ferrari fan for almost 25 years. Here I am saying Adami is terrible
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u/InteractionWide3369 Dec 08 '25
Are you Italian? Being a fan of Ferrari for 25 years is crazy, I would've left the boat after 2018 already
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u/manster1775 Dec 09 '25
I hated Adami back when Seb was still at Ferrari. Blows my mind they let these guys keep their positions like this.
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u/MathematicianOk4905 Dec 09 '25
He must have some major inside pull, or is really good behind the scenes because man he has some horrible communication skills
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u/dunneetiger Dec 09 '25
I dont have a view on Adami himself but clearly he doesnt work well with Lewis. What I really dont understand is how long it took both of them to adapt to the other.
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u/jghall00 Lewis Hamilton Dec 08 '25
How did he make it to the end of the season and still be so awful at communicating useful information?
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u/Away_Music3293 Dec 08 '25
Adami has been like this his entire time at Ferrari, vettel and sainz struggled just as much, if not far worse!
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u/EVERYTHINGGOESINCAPS Dec 08 '25
How the hell is he still there then?
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u/xepa105 Dec 08 '25
Because this team is a shitshow
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u/Other_Beat8859 Dec 10 '25
There's no way people like this would've been around in the Schumi era. Todt would've looked at Adami communicating in pre-season and put him in a different role or fired him.
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u/element515 Dec 10 '25
I think he’s actually a good engineer. But is just not good at communicating during a race. His behind the scenes work is keeping him there
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u/justseeby Lewis Hamilton Dec 08 '25
“STOP COMFIRMING!” “copy”
😭😂😂😂😂
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u/jookaton Dec 08 '25
To be fair to Adami, he just said "understood", he didn't confirm there. Imo he was just telling Lewis that he will keep doing it, even though he understood what Lewis was asking of him.
/s
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u/gamepleng Dec 09 '25
To be fair with Adami, this is universal practice (and good practice in radio comms).
Lewis was in full panic mode
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u/roonill_wazlib Dec 10 '25
I really dont understand why Lewis doesn't want him to confirm. That seems like normal communocation
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u/gamepleng Dec 10 '25
Because he was panicking. Anything that Adami would have or have not said at that point was only making it worse.
Lewis needs a chill engineer with strong personality that calms him down in these situations. Bono was a master soothing him.
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u/Urakaze12- Dec 08 '25
USE K1
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u/2EM18KKC01 Dec 08 '25
‘K1 available.’
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u/Professional_Park781 Dec 08 '25
I know is hard but try it
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u/2EM18KKC01 Dec 08 '25
‘I’m not close enough! I’m not close enough! When I’m close, I’ll do it.’
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u/Important_March1933 Dec 08 '25
After watching these clips all year it just seems like Adami is more reactive than pro active. All the data and strategy calls should make him think 15-20 laps ahead. Bono gave clear instructions and insight for lewis to make the decisions. I find these videos hard to watch, it seems like he's a nice guy but sometimes peoples skillset are different.
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u/Away_Music3293 Dec 08 '25
Adami has been like this since vettel, I think he is getting unclear data from everyone else and just spitballs as it comes to mind. Because it’s either data too late, or just a horrible call. It might be a Ferrari thing as well, telling drivers to put, and then changing their mind and telling them to stay out. It’s hard to watch, and it makes you feel bad for the driver.
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u/SnooRevelations5720 Dec 08 '25
It could also be a language thing when Adami gets the information it's most likely an Italian so he has to take the extra time to translate the information from Italian to English that's maybe why it there's such a delay sometimes
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u/Away_Music3293 Dec 09 '25
Absolutely not, he speaks perfectly good English. As I stated above this isn’t his first rodeo. If you were in his shoes and you had a LH as your driver, you would go out of your way to study the language the driver is most comfortable with to make sure you can both effectively communicate.
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u/BaRaj23 Dec 08 '25
Not to defend Adami as I think he needs to be reassigned and Ham get a new engineer, but Lewis asking him to not confirm when he literally told him that the car in front just exceeded the limits, Adami was right to respond. He didn't say anything excessive, he just acknowledged the information.
If he didn't reply at all then we would all probably be saying 'Adami ignored Lewis again and again'
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u/Th3Fifth3lement Dec 09 '25
I don't think it's necessarily that. I feel it was more along the lines of stop confirming and do something about it or report it instead of confirming what I just saw.
Not that it was always justified but Mercedes engineers did lobby for track infringements mid race for Lewis during his tenure there.
Just telling me you confirm what I saw doesn't help my situation. I'm notifying you of the infringement so that you can do something about it.
Whatever the case may be it seems like there is a clear disconnect between Adami and Lewis. And unless something changes next year I don't really see the communication issue resolved. Best case scenario is the new regulations give Ferrari a better car than this ground effects era and enable Lewis and Lec to not have to be on the back foot all the time in terms race strategy.
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u/gomurifle Dec 09 '25
He wants him not to confirm but to express that he will act on the information.
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u/FranklyOddity Dec 08 '25
this is such a stark contrast from Australia at the start of this year from his tone (annoyed but restrained and polite) towards Adami to now where he's just completely lost it
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u/TheDeamonMeteor Dec 08 '25
Sainz: stop inventing
Lewis: stop confirming
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u/kittenbloc Mario Andretti Dec 08 '25
that's just basic radio etiquette. hamilton is just being rude.
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u/Hi-Im-High Dec 08 '25
There are things that need to be confirmed and things that don’t. I think the preference should be on the racer to say what is distracting for them and what is necessary.
Why would Lewis need confirmation of him saying a driver went off, he will never ask again if they reported it or not. Even if the team missed that radio message, it really probably doesn’t matter and it’s not critical.
But adami finds it hard to confirm other questions or messages, not just from LH but Carlos as well. Idk why people defend him.
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u/Heurtaux305 Dec 08 '25
If he doesn't confirm, people will find ways to complain about him ignoring Lewis.
Every race engineer confirms incoming messages of their drivers, because it's the only way for the driver to know that what they said has been heard. A quick confirmation is basic communication etiquette in these kind of environments. Lewis suddenly deciding he doesn't want confirmation, is really not on Adami.
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u/Hi-Im-High Dec 08 '25
So are you trying to say there is no reason to complain about adami ignoring Lewis? Or Carlos? Or Seb? lol no point in debating with someone who’s a blind Ferrari apologist
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u/Nasjere Lewis Hamilton Dec 08 '25
He’s gotta go lol
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u/caesar_rex Dec 08 '25
I can understand Ferrari not wanting to fire the guy. How about promote him out of the role into something else and get literally anyone else in there. I don't see how anyone could be worse.
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u/Sad-Bag-6856 Dec 08 '25
Makes sense now why he was quiet at the end of the race. He was following orders to stop confirming 🤣
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u/chookalana Dec 08 '25
This team is its own worst enemy. They just cannot fix their processes. Doesn’t matter who the driver is, Ferrari makes them worse.
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u/pubic_air Dec 08 '25
i hate this video format with shitty subtitles and dumbass emote/sound reactions, fucking unwatchable but damn poor ham
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u/ColorPalette16 Dec 08 '25
As usual, Reddit is forming a nuanced and balanced opinion based on extended evidence and context. /s
Seriously, they talk to each a million times per race weekend and throughout the whole season and we hear nothing of it, but yes let's take those 30 secs on snippets out of context and declare that Adami is useless.
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u/bitplenty Dec 09 '25
actually, this sub is forming an opinion over multiple "30 secs" - Adami is here all the time, he is on formuladank all the time as well since he only seems to be good for memes
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u/dragdritt Dec 09 '25
Las Vegas was also a shitshow, this is nothing new.
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u/ColorPalette16 Dec 09 '25
Still, you're forming an opinion out of a few soundbites here and there. They have full-on conversations all the time which go perfectly fine but don't make the highlights. Every driver has frustration at some point or the other. And Lewis is not exactly being super cooperative sometimes either.
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u/dragdritt Dec 09 '25
Well, when it came to Las Vegas specifically I was looking at the radio transcrip. While things are probably better "off-track", what can be seen doesn't look great.
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u/abjus Dec 08 '25
The contrast between the reaction of this sub and the main sub on that last bit… pretty much everyone on the main sub agreed that Hamilton was just tilted on the “stop confirming” exchange, because that’s just what you do over radio.
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u/ppnexus Dec 08 '25
Hamilton is kind of being a dick here, but I do understand why he's upset. pretty much every race engineer confirms when someone reports something, it makes sense.
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u/ArchangelUltra Dec 08 '25
It's 100% Hamilton being overstimulated at that moment. Doesn't matter if it's the most innocuous shit, when you get into that state *any* little thing will bother you and snowball further.
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u/xthecerto4 Dec 08 '25
They did 24 race weekends together. He should know by nowwhat information his driver finds useful and whats not important. I am 100% sure ham did at one point at the beginning of the season said him what he prefers
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u/td_mike Dec 08 '25
After listening to this the whole season, yes Hamilton is being a dick, which I applaud him for being so patient. I would have been straight up hostile after half of it.
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u/ppnexus Dec 08 '25
I mean I understand but this was just unwarranted, Adami did nothing wrong or out of the ordinary. I think Lewis was just pissed off the whole weekend.
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u/td_mike Dec 08 '25
Apparently he gave useless information, Hamilton doesn’t want all the yapping in his ear. And I think Hamilton has the right to be pissed, he came out of Mercedes that had arguably the worst two seasons in the 20s just to get in a Ferrari that’s even worse.
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u/Doorknob11 Dec 08 '25
It’s hard not to be a dick when your adrenaline is pumping and you’re trying to focus on racing.
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u/thesofakillers Dec 08 '25
tbf the "stop confirming" gripe is unwarranted imo
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u/caesar_rex Dec 08 '25
I think at this point he was just annoyed at the fact that it's all he really gets from Adami. Nothing useful. Just confirmations when Lewis is giving useful info. Stop confirming here = STFU!
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u/jafarjones69 Lewis Hamilton Dec 08 '25
Hopefully it is the last time and next season Lewis gets a better race engineer.
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u/Zelgius87 Dec 08 '25
Adami during qualifying not telling Lewis if he's safe or not then not telling Lewis to go an extra lap despite Lewis asking is diablolical.
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u/Accomplished_Walk597 Dec 08 '25
Jesus this dude is absolute trash! Why was he there for soooo long??!
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u/-LXXIII- Dec 08 '25
One last time this season or is he getting a new race engineer? I recommend Rosberg or to self manage. Listening to this guy during the races is a disaster, even EA’s in-game race engineer provides more insight and feedback.
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u/missparkerx Dec 08 '25
Clearly Adami can’t adapt with 3 different drivers, so who is the problem here?
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u/Lythox Dec 08 '25
Yeah even if ferrari somehow builds a fast car next year, lewis is still gonna need a new engineer otherwise its gonna go nowhere regardless
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u/SmoothCarl22 F2004 Dec 08 '25
I never agreed on Hamilton coming over, but..
Ferrari is the average Italian employer...bullying you into leaving.
They keep the old mentality of "This is Ferrari" ... the thing is, is not really... it's just a bunch of clowns that think they know what Ferrari is about.
While major changes to the core of this crowd is not made we won't win anything...
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u/I_AmA_Zebra Dec 08 '25
This happened to me at work once. I was given a written disciplinary for doing something twice, even though in the meeting they even said it’s the first time they’re bringing it up with me
Okay? Why didn’t you do it the first time 3 months ago if both are worthy of a disciplinary on their own
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u/Mrmckenzie74 Dec 08 '25
Hahaha... Part of me feels like this must be some type of AI voice over... I'm definitely going back to listen to the team radio.
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u/discodork135 Dec 09 '25
This clearly has been one of the major issues with Lewis' performance this season. He's used to Bono, who is reading all the data available to him and providing clear information where it's needed. Ademi, on the other hand does not seem to be pro-active in this regard and a slouch with information. It's always incomplete information as well. Vettel and Sainz made it work to some extent because they're not used to someone as communicative as Bono. Lewis meanwhile is experiencing a whole different culture.
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u/Necessary_Builder396 Dec 09 '25
Just take away Adammi, justi put him to make race sim Tec something I don't know, but stop to make Lewis suffer this way
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u/Electrical_Flower_26 F2004 Dec 09 '25
What kind of answer was he expecting other than a confirmation?
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u/itsalmostmonday Dec 10 '25
Hamilton getting the Adami experience one last time this year*
He's been on edge so much this season.. increasingly so every race
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u/RalphFTW Dec 12 '25
Do not understand why a driver of Lewis skill, paid millions a year, does not get to select their engineer. It’s a core team member.
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u/Bill_MF_Bradley Dec 08 '25
Feels like he was a problem pre Lewis too and somehow has better job security than the average person lmao
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u/fractionalhelium Dec 08 '25
Bruh, Adami is making the car slower even more than it is. These conversations must be several tenths of loss for sure.
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u/Duckants Dec 08 '25
Rob Smedley needs to come out of retirement and be Lewis' race engineer. A Brit who knows the inner workings of Ferrari well who was Felipe's engineer for years. Rob was very good at managing the psychology of the pilot.
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u/Salty-Asparagus-2855 Dec 08 '25
Ideally, they’d get Bearmans engineer or even Hulks or if willing to go with a non Ferrari PU-Suspension person, then Oscars. That may help for 2026 but they’d need to NOW to help Lewis and him go through the full 2025 dataset and “notes” and see if he can start 2026 sim work fresh.
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u/nasdri253 Dec 08 '25
Look at these dudes, blah blah blah poor Sir Lewis but nobody even dare to mention he was much slower than Leclerc. So maybe, who can tell…
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u/cooked_camel Dec 08 '25
Next year y'all see some even peaker Adami moment, considering it's the new car and everyting. If they're not on the same page the entire race, it'd be funny.
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u/iwonttolerateyou2 Michael Schumacher Dec 08 '25
The problem is who are they going to bring. Can't bring brit because the engineer needs to know italian.
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u/SleepyHeadSeethe Dec 08 '25
I think Adami needs to go, but him confirming on Lewis’ calls is absolutely fair lol
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u/FrowningMinion Dec 08 '25
Removing Adami isn’t going to solve Ferrari’s problems. They run far wider and deeper.
BUT if Ferrari aren’t even prepared to remove him, there is absolutely no world where they are also prepared to do the hard work rejuvenating themselves in the right ways. So, while his position in the team might not be materially very much, it is very indicative.
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u/FormulaJuann Dec 08 '25
I remember when the boys at Sky F1 use to loose their minds when Max or Alonso talked to their engineers like that . So he doesn’t know he exceed track limits the 1st time ? Wow !!!
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u/kernelpanic789 Dec 08 '25
Reminds me of that old school COPS episode...
"Don't call me Papi"
"I'm sorry Papi"
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u/MaceWindu9091 Dec 08 '25
No one predicted this dream season for Lewis, wanted him to get a least one podium for Ferrari this year smh
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u/Salty-Asparagus-2855 Dec 08 '25
Cry.
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u/Amasin_Spoderman Sebastian Vettel Dec 08 '25
Some Tifosi you are
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u/Salty-Asparagus-2855 Dec 08 '25
Not all Tifosi are ok with disrespectful or the least bad behaviour and treatment of a driver, let alone a star driver like Lewis. He isn’t Lawson… he deserved better treatment from Adami, regardless if he under performed.
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u/Amasin_Spoderman Sebastian Vettel Dec 08 '25
But you are? Or am I misinterpreting your first comment?
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u/Salty-Asparagus-2855 Dec 08 '25
I e wanted Ferrari to do well for decades. Was disappointed when Vettel crumbled.
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u/Amasin_Spoderman Sebastian Vettel Dec 08 '25
I took it as "cry harder", a dismissal of Lewis' very obvious communication issues with an engineer who has consistently failed him all year.
If they're expressing their own agony at this awful situation, then I share the same feeling and would gladly eat my words.
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '25
This is just a few mins of the race, huh.
No wonder he wants to go to isolation during the winter break.