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CHARLES LECLERC'S UNHEARD FOUL-MOUTHED RADIO MESSAGE AFTER LEWIS HAMILTON'S DUTCH GRAND PRIX CRASH
Lewis Hamilton crashed out of the Dutch Grand Prix on Sunday just as the pit-stop window opened. And it had repercussions for his teammate Charles Leclerc.
Hamilton lost control of his Ferrari at the banked turn three, where the drivers typically run close to the wall to carry maximum speed. The snap sent him into the barriers.
While it was a low-speed impact, it was enough to rip the front corner off the Ferrari and ended Hamilton’s afternoon. He had held onto seventh place after the start phase.
Leclerc had come into the pits moments before the accident. The safety car was deployed so the sister SF-25 could be recovered.
Charles Leclerc curses his luck after Lewis Hamilton crash at Zandvoort
Leclerc felt that the full-course caution had come at the worst possible time. His relatively early stop had demoted him to ninth place.
The Monegasque cleared George Russell’s Mercedes at the start of the race, promoting himself to fifth, and had been chasing the midfield outlier Isack Hadjar.
“No!” Leclerc bellowed in an unbroadcast radio message. “F—— hell! We are so f—— unlucky! Unbelievable!”
His competitors naturally took the opportunity under the safety car, but the damage wasn’t as bad as Leclerc likely feared. He only lost one position, falling behind Russell.
And following a virtual safety car phase later in the race, Leclerc caught the Mercedes driver by surprise. He dipped wheels in the gravel as he bullied his way back ahead at the penultimate corner, a move that will be investigated after the race.
It won’t cost Leclerc any points at the Dutch Grand Prix, though, because a collision with the other Silver Arrow of Kimi Antonelli on lap 53 ended his afternoon.
What Lewis Hamilton told Ferrari before race-ending accident
On the other side of the garage, Hamilton had been reporting tyre wear in the laps before he hit the wall.
He complained that the rears were ‘definitely wearing quite a lot’, which can induce oversteer. He’d also called for Ferrari to attempt an undercut on Russell because it was so difficult to pass on track.
Jacques Villeneuve noted that Hamilton was much more positive than Leclerc after qualifying. But the seven-time world champion looked disconsolate as he walked away from his stricken car on Sunday.
Hamilton spun multiple times during practice, which was perhaps a hint that the Ferrari was unstable. He also retired from last year’s United States GP due to a driver error.
- David Comerford
Monday, 26 May 2025
'I HAVE BEEN DEAD SLOW THE WHOLE RACE? FULL RADIO FROM HAMILTON'S FRUSTRATING MONACO GP
The final message broadcast from Lewis Hamilton to his race engineer Riccardo Adami at the end of Sunday’s race was: “Are you upset with me?”
The pair had little to celebrate after the Monaco Grand Prix, even though Hamilton had moved up two places to finish fifth.
That was still one place lower than he originally qualified. He’d taken a three-place grid penalty for holding up Max Verstappen during Q1, largely due to Adami incorrectly informing him that Verstappen was not on a flying lap.
After picking up a couple of places early in the race, Hamilton lost touch with the leading group of four cars. The timing of his pit stops meant he encountered a lot of traffic and, as in previous races this year, he often pressed Adami for information he wasn’t receiving.
The mutual frustration grew as Hamilton dropped further behind and his requests for information occasionally went unanswered. That appeared to include Hamilton’s final query.
Hamilton’s Monaco Grand Prix team radio transcript
Jump to:
“Is Alonso slow or is he just managing?”
“Push now, this is our race”
“Eventually fighting Verstappen”
“Verstappen ahead of you, turn one”
“I thought he came out just ahead of me?”
“I can’t match that”
“We’ll correct it at the next pit stop”
“Why the hell are you giving me Verstappen’s stint?”
“10 cars on blue flags”
“Have I been dead slow this whole race?”
“You’re not answering the question”
“Is Alonso slow or is he just managing?”
Hamilton held on to his seventh place at the start, following Fernando Alonso and Isack Hadjar ahead. He grew concerned when Hadjar began to pull away from them after lap seven.
"Push now, this is our race”
Ferrari got the timing of Hamilton’s first pit stop spot-on, allowing him to jump ahead of Alonso and Hadjar without being threatened by Esteban Ocon behind.
“Eventually fighting Verstappen”
Hamilton’s next target was Verstappen. However as the Ferrari driver had made his first pit stop much earlier than his rival, Hamilton faced an uphill struggle to close in.
“Verstappen ahead of you, turn one”
By the time Verstappen made his first pit stop, Hamilton’s tyres were already 10 laps old. He lost more time ploughing through traffic as first Liam Lawson and later Alexander Albon held up queues of cars in order to help their team mates. Between laps 31 and 37 he fell 14 seconds back from the race leaders.
As he continued to lap slower cars, Hamilton was dismayed to learn how quickly Verstappen was able to pull away from him after his first pit stop.
“I can’t match that”
Once in free air, Hamilton tried to match Verstappen’s pace, but his hard tyres were now over 20 laps old while Verstappen was running on mediums.
“We’ll correct it at the next pit stop”
As Hamilton’s second stint drew to an end, he became increasingly concerned about his car’s balance. Ferrari prepared to make a change for his final pit stop, when he would switch back to the medium rubber.
“Why the hell are you giving me Verstappen’s stint?”
Hamilton’s frustration at being unable to catch Verstappen, and the feeling he was being left in the dark with his race situation, came out when he learned he was closer to Oscar Piastri ahead than the Red Bull he had been chasing.
As he pitted, Hamilton took the opportunity to encourage Adami to feed him more details about his race.
“10 cars on blue flags”
Hamilton lost even more time in his second stint when he had to go through lapped traffic all over again. Half the field was compressed into a single queue by this stage.
“Have I been dead slow this whole race?”
As Hamilton grew more concerned about his position in the race, another of his queries went unanswered.
“You’re not answering the question”
Hamilton kept pushing Adami to put him in the picture about his race situation, and eventually got the unwelcome news he had fallen far behind the leaders. After the race, when Hamilton asked Adami if he was “upset”, no response was broadcast.
- Keith Collantine
Monday, 5 May 2025
TEMPERS FLARE BETWEEN LEWIS HAMILTON AND FERRARI IN MIAMI GP RADIO TRANSCRIPT
Tempers flare between Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari in Miami GP radio transcript:
— Ferrari’s strategy confusion boiled over during the Miami Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton voiced his frustration over slow pit wall decisions and unclear team orders. His battle with teammate Charles Leclerc saw multiple radio outbursts as he felt blocked and unsupported in his pursuit of Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s Mercedes.
— Hamilton sharply criticized his race engineer during a wheel-to-wheel moment, as captured in this radio message cited in the article:
“Stop talking to me while I’m freaking [in] battle, man! Geesh! In the braking zone you’re talking to me!”
— As Hamilton burned through his tyres behind Leclerc, he questioned the lack of swift decision-making:
“How far are people ahead of Charles? I’m just burning up my tyres behind him.”
— When Adami replied with position gaps and suggested maintaining DRS, Hamilton was unimpressed:
“So you want me to just sit here [behind Leclerc] the whole race?”
— Ferrari eventually agreed to a swap after Hamilton referenced the Chinese GP:
“In China I got out of the way when you were on a different strategy!”
— Upon being granted the swap, Hamilton added sarcasm to his frustration:
“Ah! Have a tea break while you’re at it! Come on!”
— After Leclerc let him through, the gap to Antonelli was already too wide:
“Well now I’ve used all my tyres!”
— Later, as Ferrari called for a re-swap, Hamilton resisted again:
“So you don’t think I can catch up or what??”
— The team’s poor communication led to confusion over the timing of the switch, culminating in another biting remark:
“You want me to let him [Sainz] past as well?”
— The race ended with no radio reply from Hamilton after Adami offered standard post-race praise.
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