During his first race in red in Australia, relatively simple messages relating to the use of a "K1" setting on the steering wheel went viral, even though Hamilton peppered his responses to new race engineer Riccardo Adami with the word "please.

A tense race saw Lewis Hamilton fume at Ferrari. In a battle for seventh with team-mate Charles Leclerc, Hamilton was initially handed the place after some deliberation. They then swapped places again,