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Ex-Schumacher engineer notes Hamilton's ‘excuses'

Apr.18 Michael Schumacher's former race engineer at Ferrari thinks Lewis Hamilton is making 'excuses' about his struggle to adapt to his new team. The seven time world champion openly acknowledges his need to improve, but he has also made specific technical claims about the acclimatisation – including about unfamiliar brake materials and even 'engine braking'. 'I don't believe certain things,' Luca Baldisseri, who was Schumacher's race engineer in the early 2000s and later chief track engineer, told Formula Critica. 'What he said about engine braking is excuses,' the Italian added. 'Hamilton has seen that the car is what it is and that his teammate is able to push it to the limit...
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