Italian media make their feelings clear on Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari after worrying team radio message during Silverstone GP

Italian media have made their feelings clear on Ferrari and Lewis Hamilton following the British Grand Prix weekend.

Seven-time F1 world champion Hamilton moved to the Scuderia at the start of this season after ending a successful 12 years with Mercedes.

But Hamilton is yet to stand on the podium for Ferrari so far with his best Grand Prix finish so far being fourth in races in Emilia Romagna, Austria and at Silverstone, though the 40-year-old did win the sprint race in Shanghai.

Hamilton is sixth in the Drivers' Championship and trails teammate Charles Leclerc who himself has stood on the podium on four occasions this season.

Lewis Hamilton finished fourth at the British Grand Prix. (Image: Getty)

Ferrari are second in the Constructors' Championship - but the Italian squad has fewer than half the points of leaders McLaren who appear overwhelmingly likely to retain their title after claiming the constructors' crown last year.

Ferrari finished last season just 14 points behind McLaren but have fallen way behind the British team and it appears the Scuderia's search for a first title since 2008 will be extended for another year.

Ferrari - the most successful team in F1 history - last won the Constructors' Championship back in 2008, while Kimi Raikkonen's triumph in 2007 is the team's latest Drivers' Championship success.

Many regard the driver partnership of Hamilton and Leclerc as the best on paper in current Formula 1, but neither have won a race yet this season.

During the British Grand Prix, a radio exchange was aired between Hamilton and his race engineer Riccardo Adami during qualifying where the seven-time champion had to pit because he had no fuel, and narrowly missed out on being eliminated from Q1 by just two positions.

Lewis Hamilton driving for Ferrari. (Image: Getty)

The Italian media scrutinises Ferrari in a unique way as the F1 team is viewed very much as a national squad, similar to how national football teams are reported on in terms of success and failure, and the Scuderia has an incredibly passionate fanbase in the form of the Tifosi who are particularly out in force at Monza, where the Italian Grand Prix is held.

And a piece in Gazzetta dello Sport written by journalist Gianluca Gasperini entitled 'Ferrari, it's time to listen to Lewis Hamilton' makes it clear the Italian team must use the seven-time champion's extensive experience to help improve and listen to his honest feedback as the Scuderia aims to get back to the top of F1.

The story reads: "The recipe is simple and requires great patience: each technical intervention must be finalised for next year's car, using the second half of the season to increasingly integrate Hamilton into the team and to recover Leclerc who had two rather difficult days in England.

"Consistency is needed: hiring Lewis – who has won seven Drivers' World Championships since 2008 while Ferrari has brought home zero in the meantime – means accepting, and therefore marrying, his vision of the job and the car.

"Those who want everything right away, and don't know how F1 works, consider their difficulties with a single-seater that is too inconsistent in its behaviour as a consequence of a decline of the champion of the past.

"But what the Englishman has been preaching for a while – since he framed the situation in Maranello – is a change of philosophy, a less extreme future project, with a good load base capable of making life easier for the drivers, who are not bad."