Lewis Hamilton's anguished Ferrari radio messages revealed after 'devastating' Brazil F1 race

Another chapter was added to the rollercoaster Lewis Hamilton-Ferrari story after a disastrous Brazil race.

Starting from 20th on the grid, Hamilton overtook 11 cars on lap one, but then found himself stuck in the midfield.

The seven-time champion desperately tried to find a solution, but to no avail - now, his distraught radio messages have emerged.

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Lewis Hamilton’s angry Ferrari radio messages emerge

With Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen both starting from the back of the grid at the 2026 Sao Paulo GP, fans were readying themselves for some F1 cinema.

Hamilton duly delivered on the opening lap, overtaking 11 cars to go from 20th to ninth.

However, from there he struggled with rocketing rear tyre temperatures, meaning the Ferrari man was suffering from a severe lack of grip.

While Verstappen kept his fight in to the front, eventually finishing second, Hamilton’s race turned into a disaster.

The Brit urged his team to look at changing to slick tyres as the Interlagos track began to dry out, but his team was hesitant to take the gamble in the early stages of the race.

“Are you guys listening?” he cried out on the radio on lap 10. “I’m falling behind. What position have I fricking fallen back to?”

He asked that same lap to come in, but was told: “Negative, negative. We are not in the crossover yet. We are monitoring.”

Hamilton continued to complain about the car’s handling, urging the team to let him pit.

“It’s on the edge, for sure. If you get tyre temperature, it’ll be good,” he said to his Ferrari engineer Carlo Santi.

“I’m telling you, the only place that’s slippery is out of [Turn] 12.”

Santi replied: “Exactly, it’s the worst place on data. We agree, we need to wait a bit.”

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Lewis Hamilton's Ferrari team finally lets him pit

Finally, after Hamilton made another appeal on lap 14, the team acquiesced: "Can’t turn the car in a moment,” he said. “We are like, either this lap or the next lap. We’re basically on the edge.”

When the Ferrari emerged from the pits, though, Hamilton was still struggling with the handling of his car.

Later, Hamilton’s second pit stop resulted in him being lapped by Norris, emerging back on track at the same time as the McLaren was coming past.

Ferrari told him he had to beat Norris (to avoid being stuck behind a slower car on older tyres), but didn’t explain why.

“What do you mean you don’t know? Why’s Norris ahead of me?” he shouted. “Have I been lapped?

“I’m stuck behind Norris. Has anyone else stopped? Why would you stop me?”

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When the order shook out and Hamilton found himself 30sec behind the Racing Bulls car of Liam Lawson, the Brit asked: “Guys, how are we 30 seconds behind?”

After Lawson pitted, Hamilton began to hunt him down. However, as the Ferrari closed in it then began to rain.

The Racing Bulls car got the call to come in for pits, but it appeared that Hamilton was told too late.

“S*** I missed the pit lane,” he said “S***. S***,” before spinning on the very next lap.

“I did say it was raining… I just… I thought I could keep going, I was fine on track,” he told the team. “Where am I now?”

It eventually became clear that Hamilton was far off his teammate Charles Leclerc and would end the race down in ninth.

“You are P9,” Santi said to him. “I know I’m P9, where is everyone? Are we slow?” asked Hamilton.

The Brit would ultimately finish in that position, the last car to be indignantly lapped by winner Lando Norris.

What Lewis Hamilton said after the 2026 Sao Paulo GP

Hamilton took to social media to express his disappointment after the GP, one in severe contrast to his podium in Mexico:

"Devastated by yesterday’s race, especially with how it ended. It started so well, but we struggled with the tyres and massive oversteer," he posted.

"In those conditions, it made things incredibly difficult. I pushed as hard as I could, but we just didn’t have the pace this weekend. We’ll work to understand why and come back fighting at the next race.”