{"id":180616,"date":"2025-06-13T08:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T08:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180616\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T08:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T08:28:15","slug":"lewis-hamilton-sends-new-ferrari-message-amid-shock-retirement-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180616\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton sends new Ferrari message amid shock retirement rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"

To say that the start of the F1 2025 season hasn\u2019t gone to plan for Lewis Hamilton and Scuderia Ferrari might be something of an understatement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But according to the seven-time World Champion, he\u2019s not calling it quits any time soon. In fact, he told media at the Canadian Grand Prix, \u201cI literally only just started.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton vows to stick it out with Ferrari<\/p>\n

Ferrari may currently be sitting second overall in the World Constructors\u2019 Championship standings, but that success hasn\u2019t come without hardship.<\/p>\n

For one thing, McLaren is clearly the dominant team in 2025, racking up 362 points to Ferrari\u2019s 165. Mercedes and Red Bull are both nipping at Ferrari\u2019s heels, and the SF-25 has proven to be a handful for both Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc.<\/p>\n

The highlight of Hamilton\u2019s season \u2014 a pole-to-win victory during the sprint race in China \u2014 was almost immediately overshadowed by the double Ferrari disqualification after the Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

With Hamilton saying he\u2019s never felt worse behind the wheel than in the Spanish Grand Prix, rumours have swirled about his commitment to the Scuderia. Is Hamilton set to retire?<\/p>\n

And heading into the Canadian Grand Prix, doubts were raised about Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur, with\u00a0Corriere della Serra\u00a0<\/strong>reporting that the boss\u2019 position is under scrutiny, with hypercar head Antonelli Coletta poised to replace him.<\/p>\n

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But speaking to media during the official FIA press conference ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix, Hamilton was bullish that both he and Vasseur will remain with the team for the time to come.<\/p>\n

Hamilton was very quickly asked to address speculation about Vasseur\u2019s role at the team \u2014 something he admitted he\u2019d only recently been made aware of.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely not nice to hear that there\u2019s stories like that that are out there,\u201d he said before going on to talk about his experience with the outfit.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirstly, I love working with Fred. Fred\u2019s the main reason I\u2019m in this team and got the opportunity to be here, which I\u2019m forever grateful for. And we\u2019re in this together. We\u2019re working hard in the background. Things aren\u2019t perfect, but for me, I\u2019m here to work with with the team, but also with Fred.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want Fred here. I do believe Fred is the person to take us to the top. And so that\u2019s that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though he did admit that the season hasn\u2019t been easy, some sort of departure on Vasseur\u2019s end is \u201cnot any part of the discussion at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

When pressed on the subject later, Hamilton said that swapping Vasseur for a new team principal is \u201ccertainly not something that I would be supportive of.\u201d<\/p>\n

After noting that there are always inevitably challenges with embedding new personnel into a team \u2014 be they drivers or team principals \u2014 Hamilton vowed, \u201cI\u2019m here to win with Fred, and he has my full support.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, he compared the Vasseur rumours to the ongoing allegations that Hamilton might leave Ferrari.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then also to everyone that\u2019s writing stories of me considering not racing \u2014 I mean, I literally only just started, firstly, here with Ferrari, and I\u2019m here for several years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m here for the long the long haul. So there is no question in where my head\u2019s at and what I\u2019m working towards achieving with this team.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo there\u2019s zero doubts. Please stop making up stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later in the press conference, Hamilton seemed to imply that he feels his struggle with the team will be brief.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in that period where we obviously have to start working on next year\u2019s car,\u201d Hamilton said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe car I\u2019m racing right now is not a car that I\u2019ve had input in developing and evolving over the past four years. I\u2019m driving a car that Charle has obviously been a part of developing [and] knows very, very well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s challenging, but I\u2019m enjoying that challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

So far, it sounds like Vasseur will continue to helm the Scuderia, with Hamilton as one of his drivers.<\/p>\n

Read next:\u00a0Beer wars brew chaos: How Labatt vs Molson cancelled the 1987 Canadian Grand Prix<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To say that the start of the F1 2025 season hasn\u2019t gone to plan for Lewis Hamilton and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[72954,225,998,12,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-180616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-canadian-grand-prix","9":"tag-home-page","10":"tag-lewis-hamilton","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114675115863750828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}