FOM’s broadcast of the drivers’ radio messages caused some ire at the Chinese Grand Prix when the Formula 1 broadcaster seemed to selectively play only some messages in the Lewis Hamilton versus Charles Leclerc battle.

Formula 1 had issued a statement on the way team radio messages were broadcasted during the Chinese GP. In terms of the conversation between Riccardo Adami and Lewis Hamilton, it was not played on air that Hamilton himself suggested the swap.