Source: REUTERS/Brian Snyder
[Saba Sports News] On the morning of the Miami Grand Prix, at 9 AM, as sunlight poured into the paddock, Hamilton knocked on the door of Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur. Senior French journalist disclosed that this hastily convened “secret tire meeting” revealed the true state of relations between Hamilton, the seven-time world champion, and the Ferrari camp—not the tense hostility rumored externally, but rather the obsessive desire to win of a legendary racer. Radio exchanges during the race were merely the tip of the iceberg. When Hamilton shouted “this isn’t teamwork!” at engineer Riccardo Adami, veteran paddock journalists felt echoes of Sebastian Vettel from 2018, whose radio tantrums mirrored similar strategy disputes. Freret emphasized that this is the cultural DNA of Ferrari: whenever top drivers vie for supremacy within the team, the radio becomes a battlefield. Data shows Hamilton’s average qualifying gap with Charles Leclerc this season is just 0.15 seconds, making every strategic choice a zero-sum game.