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“Are the others struggling?” How Hamilton ended up half a minute behind Leclerc in Jeddah | Formula 1

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“Are the others struggling?” How Hamilton ended up half a minute behind Leclerc in Jeddah | Formula 1

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25 Nisan 2025 09:15

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Lewis Hamilton’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was a familiar story from his opening rounds of the 2025 season, as his radio chatter sounded more like a coaching session than a grand prix.

The Ferrari driver, in his fifth grand prix for the team, continued to prompt race engineer Ricardo Adami for guidance on where he was losing time to his team mate Charles Leclerc. In this race Hamilton’s deficit accumulated to more than half a minute.

It might have been slightly less had he not fought Lando Norris so hard early in the race. The time lost surely cost Norris the chance to attack Hamilton’s team mate Charles Leclerc for third place. But it also delayed Hamilton, who might have drawn within range of sixth-placed Andrea Kimi Antonelli, the driver who now occupies the Mercedes he drove last year.

After Hamilton took the chequered flag, Adami gave a positive assessment of his performance in the race. Hamilton kept his counsel over how he thought he’d done.

Hamilton’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix radio

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First stint: Mediums
Second stint: Hards
Finish

First stint: Mediums

There were several occasions during the race where Hamilton didn’t immediately understand what Adami was telling him.

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When Hamilton’s tyres began to go off his team advised him they couldn’t pit him right away because he would rejoin the track in too much traffic.

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Lap: 1/50 HAM: 2’12.474

Adami

Reset your brake balance. Reset your brake balance.

Adami

Safety Car, and staying out.

Adami

Charge button on. Good start. Good job.

Lap: 2/50 HAM: 2’43.542

Hamilton

Is everyone okay?

Adami

Everyone okay, double yellow turn four.

Adami

And target between minus 25.

Hamilton

Sorry?

Adami

You can target 70, 75 on the dash, on the tyres

Adami

Tsunoda is retiring. Behind you Sainz, Norris, Albon P9 and Alonso P10. Work on your front tyres.

Lap: 6/50 HAM: 1’34.459

Adami

Higher peak, higher peak suggest for turn 13, one-three. And don’t push the entry in 22.

Hamilton

Understood.

Lap: 7/50 HAM: 1’34.994

Adami

Norris two seconds behind. Suggest engine braking three.

Hamilton

Where am I losing? Struggling.

Lap: 8/50 HAM: 1’34.444

Adami

Mainly high-speed.

Adami

And 13 apex speed, one-three.

Adami

Better first sector, two-tenths faster than Antonelli ahead.

Hamilton

Apex speed is okay at turn [unclear] two?

Adami

Turn 22 to improve, two-tenths to be found.

Lap: 9/50 HAM: 1’34.460

Hamilton

Apex speed?

Adami

Apex speed, yeah.

Lap: 10/50 HAM: 1’34.580

Adami

Diff mid three might help.

Adami

Switch yellow. 22 was better.

Towards the end of his first stint Hamilton had to deal with the leaders emerging from the pits behind him on fresh tyres. Piastri got past him around the outside of turn 21, though Hamilton tried without success to attack him back. Verstappen passed him at the final corner soon afterwards.

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Lap: 11/50 HAM: 1’34.456

Adami

And tyre phase update when you can.

Adami

Think about engine braking four, engine braking four.

Adami

Verstappen 34.0 and Charles 34.3. Norris behind 34.1

Lap: 12/50 HAM: 1’35.310

Hamilton

The rears are dropping.

Adami

There’s no good traffic gap behind.

Hamilton

My rears feel they’re fading.
Norris passes him at the final corner, Hamilton repasses on the pit straight. The same happens again on the next lap

Lap: 14/50 HAM: 1’34.818

Hamilton

Yeah the rears are dropping. Really hard.

Adami

Go back to engine braking three to help.

Lap: 15/50 HAM: 1’35.832

Hamilton

Norris passes him on the pit straight
I’m just sliding around out here, mate. Can’t turn rears.

Adami

Okay understood, we believe it’s overheating and you’ll get them back

Hamilton

Are the others struggling or not?

Adami

Deg is higher than expected on the medium.

Adami

Need to improve 22, apex speed and better exit, Charles lap time 34.3.

Lap: 16/50 HAM: 1’34.955

Adami

Try b-mig three and diff entry seven.

Lap: 17/50 HAM: 1’34.686

Adami

Turn 22 was slightly better

Hamilton

Give me the pace of the cars ahead, mate. Need some more information.

Adami

Verstappen 33.7, 33.7.

Hamilton

No, cars ahead of me, mate.

Adami

Understood. Norris 34.2, Antonelli 34.7

Lap: 18/50 HAM: 1’34.592

Hamilton

Front sliding a lot in high-speed.

Adami

Okay understood. Antonelli 35.0. And think about diff entry three, direction.

Adami

Try to improve the peak into 22 for a better exit. This lap is good. Antonelli 35.2.

Lap: 19/50 HAM: 1’34.892

Adami

Don’t push the entry in 13, one-three. Antonelli car ahead, 2.7

Adami

That was a good 13, good job.

Hamilton

I lost two tenths.

Adami

You have [unclear] Charles in 13, for info. And Charles lap time 35.5. 34.5, sorry, 34.5.

Lap: 20/50 HAM: 1’34.720

Adami

And Piastri boxed. He’s getting out of the pits.

Hamilton

Antonelli’s in.

Adami

Charles lap time 34.4.
Piastri passes him at turn 21

Lap: 21/50 HAM: 1’35.128

Adami

Hamilton attacks Piastri on the outside at turn 27 but doesn’t re-pass him
And staying out, staying out

Lap: 22/50 HAM: 1’35.569

Hamilton

Definitely need front wing.

Adami

Okay, copy.

Hamilton

Understeering too much.

Adami

Verstappen 1.1 behind. Understood.

Adami

Try to improve brake peak in 22 and 16.

Second stint: Hards

Again Hamilton didn’t immediately understand that he was being advised to take it easy on his new hard tyres at the beginning of the stint so that they wouldn’t go off too soon.

Lap: 23/50 HAM: 1’37.866

Adami

And box, Lewis, box. Pit confirm and box.
Verstappen passes him at the exit of the last corner

Lap: 24/50 HAM: 1’51.801

Hamilton

Give me the gap.

Adami

Antonelli seven ahead. Can cut the peak of temperature on these tyres.

Hamilton

Can what?

Adami

Try to cut the peak of the temperature of these tyres in the direction of slow intro. Car behind 2.2 behind. Try slow intro. Antonelli did a 33.6 first timed lap.

Lap: 25/50 HAM: 1’34.037

Adami

Brake peak heavy turning into four, one tenth and a half, and don’t push the entry into six.

Lap: 26/50 HAM: 1’33.542

Adami

This lap is good. Antonelli 33.8.

Hamilton constantly asked for feedback about where Leclerc was finding more time.

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Hamilton began to close on Antonelli as the second stint wore on. Antonelli’s tyres were four laps older than his.

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Lap: 27/50 HAM: 1’33.720

Hamilton

Pace.

Adami

Antonelli 34.0. You can release turn 22, two tenths there.

Lap: 28/50 HAM: 1’33.365

Hamilton

Sectors.

Adami

Turn four to improve apex speed. One tenth and a half turn four.

Adami

Charles still out on the medium, 33.4

Hamilton

Yeah, I’ve got massive deg, mate. My rears are really hot.

Lap: 29/50 HAM: 1’33.810

Adami

Rears are overheating, yeah, try to keep it together.

Adami

This lap was good

Hamilton

Where can I save tyres?

Lap: 30/50 HAM: 1’33.564

Adami

Lap time for Russell 33.4. Antonelli lap time 33.8.

Adami

[Unclear] apex turn four.

Hamilton

Okay.

Adami

Car ahead is Hadjar, he is on the hard, five-and-a-half ahead.

Hamilton

Right-rear particularly getting hot.

Lap: 31/50 HAM: 1’34.392

Adami

Understood. Antonelli 34.4, faster than him.

Lap: 32/50 HAM: 1’33.595

Adami

Diff mid three for deg. Was a first strike in 22.

Lap: 33/50 HAM: 1’33.603

Adami

Antonelli 33.9.

Hamilton

Gap?

Adami

6.8 seconds

Lap: 34/50 HAM: 1’33.876

Adami

And we suggest b-bal 62

Adami

And switch yellow.

Lap: 35/50 HAM: 1’33.564

Adami

That was a good section. Half a second faster than Antonelli, first sector.

Adami

Try to not push [unclear] for a better exit. Antonelli lap time 33.9.

Lap: 36/50 HAM: 1’33.291

Adami

And gap is six and a half.

Adami

Diff entry 10 might help. Good improvement in four. Diff mid four as well, diff mid four.

Lap: 37/50 HAM: 1’33.044

Adami

Antonelli 33.6. 13 laps to go, one-three.

Lap: 38/50 HAM: 1’32.925

Adami

The pace is good. Antonelli 33.7.

Adami

The pace is good, the gap is five seconds. Try to push more in nine and 10.

Lap: 39/50 HAM: 1’33.285

Hamilton

Try to what?

Adami

Push more in nine and 10 if you can.

Adami

Diff high speed four, might help in turn nine.

Lap: 40/50 HAM: 1’32.833

Adami

Gap is 4.4

Lap: 41/50 HAM: 1’33.022

Adami

Gap is four seconds.

Adami

Find one, two tenths in 9 and 10, less trail braking, no trail braking.

Lap: 42/50 HAM: 1’32.640

Adami

Gap three and a half, Antonelli 33.3.

Adami

A very good lap. Gap 3.3. Eight laps to go, we can get him.

Lap: 43/50 HAM: 1’32.600

Adami

Diff high speed five to help you. Antonelli 33.3, gap 2.8.

Lap: 44/50 HAM: 1’32.789

Adami

Six laps to go.

Adami

Gap is 2.2. We could try a left toggle, turn one-two.

Lap: 45/50 HAM: 1’32.821

Adami

You can reset your diff entry, gap 2.0. Four laps to go, think about engine braking two.

Finish

Hamilton couldn’t get any closer to Antonelli over the final laps.

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Lap: 47/50 HAM: 1’33.060

Adami

B-bal 61 suggestion and avoid trail braking to nine. You can go [state of charge] four.

Lap: 49/50 HAM: 1’33.012

Adami

Two laps to go. Diff entry nine.

Hamilton

The tyres have gone off.

Lap: 50/50 HAM: 1’33.435

Adami

And last lap. Copy that.

Chequered flag

Adami

That’s a P7.

Adami

There was a good pace in the middle of the second stint, and understeer I believe in the first one, and overheating. Piastri then Verstappen and Charles P3 and Lando behind him. Russell, Antonelli, behind you Sainz, Albon, Hadjar P10.

Hamilton

Well done to Charles. I’m sorry we didn’t have the pace today.

Adami

I remind you P zero.