‘It’s all noise’ – Hamilton responds to speculation over relationship with engineer Adami

“He’s been amazing to work with, he’s a great guy, working so hard – we both are – and we don’t always get it right every weekend. We have disagreements, like everyone does in relationships, but we work through them.

“We’re both in it together, we both want to win a championship together, we’re both working towards lifting the team up.

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“So it’s just all noise, and we don’t really pay any attention to it. So it can continue if you want, but it doesn’t make any difference to the job that we’re trying to do.”

In reference to that message in Monte Carlo, Hamilton added: “It was literally just there [were] areas that were… we just had radio problems through the race, [and I] didn’t get all the information that I wanted.”