lewis hamilton was involved in a series of curt radio exchanges with his team as ferrari’s sebastian vettel was the surprise winner of the malaysian grand prix hamilton’s mercedes team had threatened to dominate this season but to the great relief of formula one fans throughout the world — including some patriotic hamilton supporters — they have been caught up hamilton, who finished second to head the championship standings by three points, exchanged words with his obviously jittery engineers on the pit wall lewis hamilton waves to the crowds from the podium after finishing second at the malaysian grand prix  during the race, hamilton was involved in a number of frustrated exchanges with his engineers  hamilton looks dejected (left) as he stands on the podium alongside sebastian vettel and nico rosberg  f1 stats provided by f1 stat blog  he questioned their choice of tyres and told them not to talk to him while he was cornering apart from saying some of the messages were ‘confusing’, hamilton refrained from criticising the team after the race and admitted that even if mercedes had got their strategy right, vettel ‘would still have been hard to beat’ incident 1  lap 39 — hamilton complains about choice of tyres:  hamilton: this is the wrong tyre, man his engineer replies they had no choice engineer: the other was well used incident 2  lap 40 — with vettel picking up the pace, hamilton vents his anger again:  hamilton: i can hear you (in response to one engineer trying to grab a quick word) i don’t know what i’m supposed to be doing paddy (lowe, team technical chief) says i might be doing another stop engineer: that was just miscommunication that was just chatter incident 3  lap 42 — hamilton snaps after being distracted:  engineer: lewis you are scheduled to catch vettel with five laps remaining hamilton: don’t try and talk to me through the corners, man, i nearly went off james restall  hamilton wasn't happy that he could hear radio chatter as he took on a corner, claiming he nearly went off  hamilton sips champagne alongside race winner vettel (right) on the malaysian podium 
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lewis hamilton was beaten by sebastian vettel at the malaysian gp  the brit was involved in a series of curt radio exchanges with his team  hamilton told his engineers not to speak to him as he cornered  the mercedes driver heads the drivers' championship by three points 