Hamilton gets Ferrari best finish with second at GP

Lewis Hamilton secured his best result for Ferrari with a second-place finish at the Canadian Grand Prix, crediting a new and unconventional engineering partnership for his improved performance. The seven-time world champion, who joined Ferrari in 2025, has found renewed form after an offseason change to his race engineer.

Hamilton’s initial partnership with race engineer Riccardo Adami was marked by communication difficulties and tense radio exchanges throughout his debut season. Ahead of the 2026 season, Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur made a change, appointing Carlo Santi, formerly Kimi Raikkonen’s race engineer, to the role on an interim basis. The team also enlisted performance engineer Cedric Michel-Grosjean to support Hamilton. This dual setup, which drew criticism early in the season, is now yielding positive results.

Following his podium in Montreal, Hamilton praised both engineers. He described Santi as “absolutely awesome” and said he is “really loving working with him.” Hamilton also highlighted Michel-Grosjean’s contribution, stating his “number two did a fantastic job this weekend and helped me really pull more performance out of the car.” Hamilton explained...