Lewis Hamilton has confirmed a major reshuffle in his Ferrari team, a change that he claimed added further complications to his F1 race weekend at Spa.

Lewis Hamilton revealed he has switched one of his performance engineers in his team and said they were both adapting to the mid-season alteration. While not stating who it was, Hamilton said the engineer was from his “previous team”, suggesting the new hire came from Mercedes.

Lewis Hamilton is still searching for his first podium since joining Ferrari, as the wait extended through another Grand Prix weekend. Ferrari had high hopes heading into Belgium, bringing one of their most significant update packages of the season since the last race at Silverstone.

Lewis Hamilton salvaged an eye-catching result at Spa after a disastrous early weekend with Ferrari – but his voice may have been even louder off-track. The seven-time world champion charged from the back to finish seventh in a wet Belgian GP,

Lewis Hamilton is trying everything to turn his season around, even sharing things with Ferrari that the team had never heard from past drivers like Michael Schumacher. The 40-year-old’s move to Ferrari was meant to be the fulfilment of a lifelong ambition.