PALMER: Why isn't it clicking yet for Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari this year?


Lewis Hamilton’s move to Ferrari was perhaps the most anticipated driver switch in recent Formula 1 history, but so far the partnership between the sport’s most successful driver and most successful team isn’t working out as they would have hoped. So what’s going wrong for team and driver? Former Renault F1 driver Jolyon Palmer has taken a close look…
Miami seemed like a weekend where everything was going wrong for Ferrari, amplified by the team radio messages we heard from both drivers during the race’s final stint. But to me this wasn’t a weekend of pit wall mismanagement from the Scuderia – it was more just a trying weekend in terms of car performance.

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