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Lewis Hamilton admits missing link at Ferrari will hurt his 2026 season
Lewis Hamilton admitted he won’t have a permanent F1 race engineer for the early races of the 2026 season after parting ways with Riccardo Adami in January. The first day of Bahrain testing passed without an announcement on Hamilton’s new engineer. Kimi Raikkonen’s former engineer, Carlo Santi, will temporarily take on the role for the initial races. Hamilton expressed the challenge of not having a long-term solution and needing to work with someone new in the early season. Reports hinted at Cedric Michel-Grosjean from McLaren being Hamilton’s potential new engineer, but Ferrari has yet to confirm this. Despite the situation, Hamilton and his team aim to make the transition as smooth as possible for the upcoming races.
