F1 responds after Ferrari brands Lewis Hamilton radio broadcast a “joke”

🍌F1 have responded to Ferrari ca꧋lling their selected radio message broadcasts as a "joke".

Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc swapped positions in China
Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc swapped positions in China

F1 have already held talks with Ferrari over the radio message broadcaꦕst which angered the team.

Ferrari accused F1 of a deliberate attempt to stir up drama surrounding a driver swap involving 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc in Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix.

Struggling to keep pace wi💝th the frontrunners and aware he was holding up Leclerc behind, Hamilton informed Ferrari he was 🌟considering letting his teammate through in a radio message which was not broadcast.

“I think I’m going to let Charles go, because I’m struggling,” the seven-time world champion radioed in t🍸o Ferrari.

The swap did not happen immediately a🐼nd Hamilton was told “we are swapping✨ cars” at Turn 14, to which he responded “when he’s closer, yes.”

Hamilton appeared to change his mind about the swap brief🥂ly when he though༒t he was catching Mercedes’ George Russell.

The 40-year-old Briton💦 then replied “I’ll tell you when we can swap” when another request came from race engineer Riccardo Adami to wave Leclerc by at Turn 14.

Hamilton eventually moved aside two corners later at 💙Turn 1 on 🔯Lap 21.

Ferrari were 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:unhappy🌞 that 😼only select radio messages were broadcast and delayed, which gave the impression❀ that Hamilton was disgruntled and disobeying a team order.

Team principal Fred V🔜asseur labelled the select broadcasting of team radio messages a “joke” and felt it had created a false narrative.

F1 have now commenౠted on the matter, insisting the decision to only play certain messages was not an "intentional” attempt 𓆉to mislead.

“There was absolutely no intention of presenting a misleading narrat🥂ive regarding the Ferrari team radio,” an F1 spokesperson told mahbx.com.

“Due to other situations developing during the race the ꧒message from Lewis was not pl𓆉ayed but this was not intentional.”

What made Ferrari so unhappy

“I think this is a joke from FOM because thꦯe first call came from Lewis,” Vasseur said in Shanghai.

"Lewis asked us to swap, but to create the mess around the situation they broadcast only the secon🍨d part of the question. We will discuss with them.

"You can't♔ imagine the number of ques♌tions I had about this when I came from the garage to here," he said. "It's all about the same thing: 'Is it a mess?' I said no, it's Lewis who asked to swap.

"I'm not even sure you would even have these situations ten times at other teams i𝓡n a season, and honestly from the pit wall we really appreciated the c𒈔all from Lewis saying, 'guys, I'm losing the pace, I'm keen to swap’.

"It took us one lap to ask him to swap with Charles and then the pace was back. He said 'oh let's stay like this for a little bit' a♉nd we said 'no, if you up the pace we swap’.

"As a team the co🐓llaboration between the two guys is mega and I can't complain a single second about something.

“I understand the question, but you have to ask the 🦋question to Stefano [Domenicaliﷺ, F1 president and CEO] and not me because I'm not in charge of the broadcast.”

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