'It's quite telling' - Lewis Hamilton frustration highlights significant Ferrari issue

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Lewis Hamilton's "sarcastic" venting over team radio underlines a considerable problem at Ferrari, according to Martin Brundle. The former F1 drivers contended how immediately switching the British driver and Charles Leclerc at the Miami Grand Prix appeared to be a "no brainer" for the Scuderia. However, it took multiple laps to deliberate over enacting team orders, despite Hamilton pushing for the switch to be made. Once it did act, it was too late, with the 40-year-old having used up the best of his medium tyres. Brundle talked through how the situation unfolded at the Miami International Autodrome - including the seven-time F1 drivers' champion's "frustration" with the events that transpired. "On the face of it, it looked like a no brainer, because Lewis caught them [the cars ahead, including Leclerc] like a rocket ship, didn't he, on those tyres," he began on the Sky Sports F1 podcast . "What was confusing matters is that as soon as one Ferrari got in the other's DRS [range], it looked like the faster Ferrari. "Hindsights a wonderful thing, but when Lewis got in front, he didn't pull away, in fact, then Charles started catching him back up..." Critical Ferrari problem To the 65-year-old, the scenario illustrates the hesitation on the Ferrari pit wall, something that led to Hamilton's emotions getting the better of him over team radio. "The radio calls, they [Ferrari] seemed to hesitate too much - they have them for a long time, haven't they," the Briton said. "Some of the things Lewis has said on the radio is quite sarcastic, as he said. You can't unsay those, and I think it's quite telling, that kind of frustration. "It's a bit unfair that we play selected radio messages out on the TV, in a way, but it's such an important part, especially now the drivers are buried inside the car as they are, and you can barely see them. "It's such a window for us to understand just what's going on inside the cockpit, those radio calls. "I think it's quite telling, just the sort of the sarcasm of them and how upset Lewis is. And he'd have been really frustrated in that race, 23 laps behind Ocon in a customer Ferrari [power unit] with 300 people in the factory... "Trying to get past Ocon's Haas, that's not where Lewis expected to be this year. So I'd imagine his mood wasn't too good." 'Painful listening' Despite Ferrari and Hamilton playing off the episode post race, having finished eighth behind his team-mate, Brundle maintained the 105-time grand prix winner cannot "unsay" those remarks. He pinpointed the damning parting message from a disappointing weekend in Florida, when Hamilton asked if he should let Carlos Sainz through, too. "And it did look like they should have just swept him straight past Charles, because one [Hamilton] started on hards and went to medium, Charles started on medium and went to hard," he added. "They were going to meet in the middle somewhere. "So it seemed a bit of a no brainer, but in the end, they had to let Charles back through - and that's when Lewis came up with his second comment of: 'Do you want me to let the Williams through as well', which was painful listening. "They [Ferrari] closed ranks at the end, to sort of calm that all down. But as I said, some of those things Lewis came out with, you can't unsay."