Riccardo Adami is expected to remain as Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari race engineer for the F1 2026 season, it has been claimed.
It comes after Hamilton and team principal Fred Vasseur both left the door open to a potential change to the seven-time world champion’s inner circle for 2026.
Rumour: Riccardo Adami to continue as Lewis Hamilton race engineer for F1 2026
Hamilton endured a disastrous first year with Ferrari in F1 2025, failing to score a podium finish across a season for the first time in his illustrious career.
The British driver’s campaign was defined by a series of awkward team radio exchanges with Adami, who previously served as race engineer to Sebastian Vettel and Carlos Sainz.
As reported by PlanetF1.com last week, Vasseur refused to rule out a change of race engineer for Hamilton for F1 2026, simply commenting: “We are evaluating all options.”
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That came after Hamilton himself had teased potential changes to his “personal team” for next season at the 2025 season finale in Abu Dhabi.
Asked what needs to happen over the winter for him to approach the 2026 season with confidence, Hamilton told PlanetF1.com and other media outlets: “I think we just need to analyse where we’ve been, what’s been good, areas that we can improve on.
“I’ve highlighted and I know where they all are. It’s sitting down with the team at the end of the year.
“I’ll look internally at my personal team, away from the track, and see what we can do more to make more efficient with the timing and traveling and all these different things.
“I’ll do the same with the team.”
A report by Italian publication Auto Racer has claimed that Adami is set to stay in his role for F1 2026 after what has been described as a ‘very positive’ dinner with Hamilton away from the track.
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