The Ferrari driver has Carlo Santi ‘in his headphones’
“I think that Michel-Grosjean is an excellent signing and that he can get along well with Hamilton with a view to becoming his race engineer, but now Carlo Santi is taking care of Lewis and the pair is working well. We will make a decision together, but there is no rush”. Thus the Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur after the Australian GP he underlined that the Hamilton-Santi pairing was working well and that there is no particular rush within the Maranello team to promote the new signing arrived from McLaren Cedric Michel-Grosjean as Lewis Hamilton’s race engineer.
The Hamilton-Santi tandem – last year Hamilton’s race engineer was Riccardo Adami – also worked well in China and the English driver underlined in the press conference that at this moment it definitely doesn’t seem appropriate to ‘touch anything’ inside Ferrari: “The new race engineer was a stimulus for me – said the seven-time world champion – and morale is high within the team. I can’t wait to return to Maranello next week and see everyone again.”
Hamilton also explained that the ‘obsession’ of the first podium in Ferrari was a very particular challenge for a driver with his pedigree: “Getting on the podium is the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my career, and it was the biggest challenge. I just had to wait for the right moment. I think I cultivated a really positive mental attitude at the start of the season and I’ll take that with me.”
