'My Italian Bono' – Who is Carlo Santi and how is he helping Hamilton get back to winning ways? Lewis Hamilton has finally hit his stride at Ferrari with the help of race engineer Carlo Santi – but who is he? Lewis Hamilton finally stood on the top step of the podium for the first time in Ferrari colours last weekend after taking victory in the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. The result marked a significant turnaround for the seven-time World Champion, who endured his worst season in Formula 1 after joining the Scuderia at the start of 2025 when he struggled to adapt to the team's SF-25 car. Since then, Hamilton has built an engineering team around him that has allowed him to extract the most out of Ferrari's 2026 challenger, the SF-26, a car the Briton was involved in developing last year and over the winter. And just as importantly, Hamilton has struck up a strong working relationship with Carlo Santi, his new race engineer. But just who is the man he describes as "my Italian Bono"? Who is Carlo Santi? Carlo Santi is 52 years old and was born in Verona in northern Italy. He has spent more than a decade at the Ferrari F1 team, working closely with Kimi Raikkonen during the 2016 and 2017 seasons, before becoming the Finn's race engineer in 2018. This culminated in him standing alongside Raikkonen on the podium for his final F1 win at the 2018 United States Grand Prix, before Santi moved into a leadership role over the following years at Ferrari, where he worked within the 'remote garage', helping to support the drivers and team on a race weekend from back at the Maranello HQ. Santi said working for Ferrari had been a dream of his since he was a