Ferrari drivers interact with the team differently.

      Lewis Hamilton is spending the summer break of the championship at his ranch in the mountains of the U.S. state of Colorado — apparently, communing with nature helps him sort out his thoughts and restore his mental equilibrium, which has been somewhat shaken by his continuing misfortunes.

      Meanwhile the global racing press continues to discuss his working relationship with Ferrari, which probably cannot be called entirely smooth. In any case Hamilton’s results leave much to be desired, and during the days of the July Belgian Grand Prix he said he had sent the team two documents in which he set out his view of the situation.

      Here’s what he said then: “I sent the team a couple of documents about issues I would like to draw attention to. Some problems are systemic in nature, and I think certain structural changes need to be made in order to achieve higher results…”

      Of course, everyone was curious what exactly the seven-time world champion had set out in those documents, and in what tone they were written. As Lewis explained during the Hungarian race weekend, there were no hard demands in them.

      “There were no orders in them,” RacingNews365 quotes Hamilton. “There were only ideas: ‘What if we acted like this? Have we tried taking such measures? It’s possible that if we had tried, it would have been easier for us to solve certain issues.’ It was simply about the need to continue the dialogue. Frédéric Vasseur and the whole team reacted quite positively to it.”

      Charles Leclerc’s results this season are clearly higher than his teammate’s — he has been on the podium five times, and in Hungary he took pole. However, that did not help him, and he finished at the Hungaroring outside the top three, but that’s another story.

      Speaking to the press, he stressed that he interacts with the team differently and does not write any letters to it:

      “Personally, I don’t create any documents, but, of course, when I come to the base in Maranello I always take part in meetings with the team to find out what tasks lie ahead of us. Each driver has his own ways of exchanging information with the team. I have my own methods, and they are not the same as Lewis’s. But that doesn’t mean I stay away from the work processes — of course I take part in them.”