Lewis Hamilton has been told to “focus on driving and talk less” in a rebuke from the Ferrari president John Elkann, which was almost certainly a reaction to Hamilton’s outspoken description of his first season with the team as a “nightmare”.

Hamilton has endured a difficult debut year with Ferrari , with the team underperforming and the seven-time champion having a trying time adapting to a new environment and practices.

After another disappointing race at the São Paulo Grand Prix on Sunday where he was forced to retire the car on lap 37, Hamilton was unusually blunt, stating: “This is a nightmare and I’ve been living it for a while. The flip between the dream of driving for this amazing team and then the nightmare of the results that we’ve had”. Lewis Hamilton laments ‘nightmare’ f

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