F1 have already held talks with Ferrari over the radio message broadcast which angered the crew.
Ferrari accused F1 of a deliberate try to fire up drama surrounding a driver swap involving Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc in Sunday’s Chinese language Grand Prix.
Struggling to maintain tempo with the frontrunners and conscious he was holding up Leclerc behind, Hamilton knowledgeable Ferrari he was contemplating letting his teammate by in a radio message which was not broadcast.
“I believe I’m going to let Charles go, as a result of I’m struggling,” the seven-time world champion radioed in to Ferrari.
The swap didn’t occur instantly and Hamilton was informed “we’re swapping vehicles” at Flip 14, to which he responded “when he’s nearer, sure.”
Hamilton appeared to alter his thoughts in regards to the swap briefly when he thought he was catching Mercedes’ George Russell.
The 40-year-old Briton then replied “I’ll let you know after we can swap” when one other request got here from race engineer Riccardo Adami to wave Leclerc by at Flip 14.
Hamilton finally moved apart two corners later at Flip 1 on Lap 21.
Ferrari had been sad that solely choose radio messages had been broadcast and delayed, which seemed that Hamilton was disgruntled and disobeying a crew order.
Workforce principal Fred Vasseur labelled the choose broadcasting of crew radio messages a “joke” and felt it had created a false narrative.
F1 have now commented on the matter, insisting the choice to solely play sure messages was not an “intentional” try to mislead.
“There was completely no intention of presenting a deceptive narrative relating to the Ferrari crew radio,” an F1 spokesperson informed Crash.web.
“As a result of different conditions growing in the course of the race the message from Lewis was not performed however this was not intentional.”
What made Ferrari so sad
“I believe it is a joke from FOM as a result of the primary name got here from Lewis,” Vasseur stated in Shanghai.
“Lewis requested us to swap, however to create the mess across the state of affairs they broadcast solely the second a part of the query. We’ll focus on with them.
“You possibly can’t think about the variety of questions I had about this after I got here from the storage to right here,” he stated. “It is all about the identical factor: ‘Is it a multitude?’ I stated no, it is Lewis who requested to swap.
“I am not even certain you’ll even have these conditions ten occasions at different groups in a season, and truthfully from the pit wall we actually appreciated the decision from Lewis saying, ‘guys, I am dropping the tempo, I am eager to swap’.
“It took us one lap to ask him to swap with Charles after which the tempo was again. He stated ‘oh let’s keep like this for a little bit bit’ and we stated ‘no, in the event you up the tempo we swap’.
“As a crew the collaboration between the 2 guys is mega and I can not complain a single second about one thing.
“I perceive the query, however you must ask the query to Stefano [Domenicali, F1 president and CEO] and never me as a result of I am not accountable for the printed.”
