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,

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

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.