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Ferrari F1 team have officially announced that Riccardo Adami will not be Lewis Hamilton’s race engineer for the 2026 season.
The Ferrari F1 team has officially announced that Riccardo Adami will not be Lewis Hamilton’s race engineer for the 2026 season. Hamilton and Adami worked together during Hamilton’s first year at Ferrari, but their relationship came under scrutiny following tense radio exchanges in 2025. Adami has moved to a new role within the Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy as the Manager for Previous Cars, while Ferrari thanks him for his contributions and wishes him success. The team will announce the new Race Engineer for car #44 soon.
Riccardo Adami started his F1 career in 2002 with Minardi and later worked with drivers like Ricciardo, Buemi, and Vettel at Toro Rosso. Adami joined Ferrari in 2015 as Sebastian Vettel’s race engineer and later worked with Carlos Sainz. Hamilton replaced Sainz in 2025 and had Adami as his confirmed new race engineer. Ferrari’s new race engineer for Hamilton will be announced in the future.
