Lewis Hamilton has hit back at media making too much of his radio exchanges with his new Ferrari race engineer during his Scuderia debut in Australia, suggesting "far worse" comments by Max Verstappen went unnoticed.
Hamilton endured a difficult Ferrari debut in Melbourne, with the team struggling for performance in both dry qualifying conditions and in a mixed-weather race, and taking wrong strategy calls that prevented either Hamilton or team-mate Charles Leclerc from finishing higher than 10th and eighth respectively.
