After a frustrating Ferrari debut, Hamilton will need to improve his driver-engineer partnership with Riccardo Adami if he is to thrive at the Italian team this year

Lewis Hamilton’s relationship with his new Ferrari team was pressure tested in Australia, where he finished a disappointing 10th on debut, and was frustrated by a bad strategy that cost him a potential victory,

Assessing the legendary Brit’s Ferrari debut, Brundle took a dim view. “And on that subject, despite lots of happy words, and reasons why he had to learn his steering wheel and other new aspects, Lewis Hamilton had a disappointing start to his Ferrari career by any metric,” he wrote in his Sky Sports F1 column.