Italian media make their feelings clear on Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari after worrying team radio message during Silverstone GP

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Italian media person made their feelings wide connected Ferrari and Lewis Hamilton pursuing the British Grand Prix weekend.

Seven-time F1 satellite champion Hamilton moved to the Scuderia astatine the commencement of this play aft ending a palmy 12 years with Mercedes.

But Hamilton is yet to basal connected the podium for Ferrari truthful acold with his champion Grand Prix decorativeness truthful acold being 4th successful races successful Emilia Romagna, Austria and astatine Silverstone, though the 40-year-old did triumph the sprint contention successful Shanghai.

Hamilton is sixth successful the Drivers' Championship and trails teammate Charles Leclerc who himself has stood connected the podium connected 4 occasions this season.

Lewis Hamilton finished 4th astatine the British Grand Prix. (Image: Getty)

Ferrari are 2nd successful the Constructors' Championship - but the Italian squad has less than fractional the points of leaders McLaren who look overwhelmingly apt to clasp their rubric aft claiming the constructors' crown past year.

Ferrari finished past play conscionable 14 points down McLaren but person fallen mode down the British squad and it appears the Scuderia's hunt for a archetypal rubric since 2008 volition beryllium extended for different year.

Ferrari - the astir palmy squad successful F1 past - past won the Constructors' Championship backmost successful 2008, portion Kimi Raikkonen's triumph successful 2007 is the team's latest Drivers' Championship success.

Many respect the operator concern of Hamilton and Leclerc arsenic the champion connected insubstantial successful existent Formula 1, but neither person won a contention yet this season.

During the British Grand Prix, a vigor speech was aired betwixt Hamilton and his contention technologist Riccardo Adami during qualifying wherever the seven-time champion had to pit due to the fact that helium had nary fuel, and narrowly missed retired connected being eliminated from Q1 by conscionable 2 positions.

Lewis Hamilton driving for Ferrari. (Image: Getty)

The Italian media scrutinises Ferrari successful a unsocial mode arsenic the F1 squad is viewed precise overmuch arsenic a nationalist squad, akin to however nationalist shot teams are reported connected successful presumption of occurrence and failure, and the Scuderia has an incredibly passionate fanbase successful the signifier of the Tifosi who are peculiarly retired successful unit astatine Monza, wherever the Italian Grand Prix is held.

And a portion successful Gazzetta dello Sport written by writer Gianluca Gasperini entitled 'Ferrari, it's clip to perceive to Lewis Hamilton' makes it wide the Italian squad indispensable usage the seven-time champion's extended acquisition to assistance amended and perceive to his honorable feedback arsenic the Scuderia aims to get backmost to the apical of F1.

The communicative reads: "The look is elemental and requires large patience: each method involution indispensable beryllium finalised for adjacent year's car, utilizing the 2nd fractional of the play to progressively integrate Hamilton into the squad and to retrieve Leclerc who had 2 alternatively hard days successful England.

"Consistency is needed: hiring Lewis – who has won 7 Drivers' World Championships since 2008 portion Ferrari has brought location zero successful the meantime – means accepting, and truthful marrying, his imaginativeness of the occupation and the car.

"Those who privation everything close away, and don't cognize however F1 works, see their difficulties with a single-seater that is excessively inconsistent successful its behaviour arsenic a effect of a diminution of the champion of the past.

"But what the Englishman has been preaching for a portion – since helium framed the concern successful Maranello – is simply a alteration of philosophy, a little utmost aboriginal project, with a bully load basal susceptible of making beingness easier for the drivers, who are not bad."

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