{"id":229217,"date":"2025-07-01T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229217\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:54:10","slug":"lewis-hamilton-verdict-delivered-by-bernie-ecclestone-in-ferrari-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229217\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton verdict delivered by Bernie Ecclestone in Ferrari critique"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernie Ecclestone issued a simple \u201cno\u201d to Lewis Hamilton winning an eighth World title, but that\u2019s only part of Ferrari\u2019s problems.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hamilton joined Ferrari at the start of this season in a blockbuster move that united Formula 1\u2019s most successful driver with the sport\u2019s longest-serving team.<\/p>\n

Can Lewis Hamilton win an eighth World title?<\/p>\n

But it has been anything but a dream start for the partnership.<\/p>\n

Although Hamilton<\/a> has been successful in F1 2025\u2019s short races, winning in China and on the podium in Miami, he\u2019s been off the pace in the Grands Prix.<\/p>\n

The seven-time World Champion has yet to record a podium result, never mind a win, in 11 Grands Prix, nor has F1\u2019s most prolific qualifier, with a record of 104 pole positions, started a Grand Prix from the front row of the grid.<\/p>\n

His results have left him in sixth place in the Drivers\u2019 Championship<\/a> with just 91 points on the board, 125 behind championship leader Oscar Piastri. He trails his Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc by 28 points.<\/p>\n

All but mathematically out of this year\u2019s fight for the World title, former F1 supremo Ecclestone was asked if he thought Hamilton would ever add to his tally of seven World titles.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d he told Sky Sports<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s a period in people\u2019s lives when everything\u2019s going to work well, or not work well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he was fortunate enough to be around when\u2026 firstly there wasn\u2019t so much competition so it was a little bit easier. And now he\u2019s got competitors, which when he was winning everything, he didn\u2019t have too many people at the top of the tree.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I hope he still can get the job done,\u201d the 94-year-old continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether he can win the World Championship where he is, it\u2019s a completely different story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamilton joined Ferrari ahead of what was expected to be a good season for the Italian outfit, after it raced McLaren all the way through to the final chequered flag of the F1 2024 season for the Constructors\u2019 title.<\/p>\n

But while McLaren has kicked on, leading both championships this season, Ferrari\u2019s form has faltered.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s led to speculation that team principal Fred Vasseur is under pressure to hold onto his job.<\/p>\n

Ecclestone weighed on Vasseur\u2019s position, saying: \u201cI hope he gets the job done because it\u2019s wrong to keep switching one guy out and another guy because the guy who comes in, he\u2019s not going to be happy with the guy, what he\u2019s been doing, the one that\u2019s leaving.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want to change things, that\u2019s the problem with changing people a little bit at the top.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vasseur has been at helm since 2023 when he replaced Mattia Binotto, increasing Ferrari\u2019s tally to five team principals in just 10 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the problem there is what happened when we changed everything. All the people that are there are in charge, but there was nobody in charge, except everyone,\u201d Ecclestone said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think it\u2019s all sort of gone back a little bit that way. It needs one guy, really and truly, there to say, this is how it\u2019s going to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s finding the one guy; they should get Luca [di Montezemolo] back!\u201d<\/p>\n

Ecclestone, however, won\u2019t get his wish as di Montezemolo has recently been appointed as a director of McLaren Group Holdings Limited<\/a> in a surprise move.<\/p>\n

Read next: Fred Vasseur receives huge endorsement after Ferrari future speculation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bernie Ecclestone issued a simple \u201cno\u201d to Lewis Hamilton winning an eighth World title, but that\u2019s only part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[90226,4199,997,707,4200,7181,225,998,12,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-229217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-bernie-ecclestone","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-ferrari","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-fred-vasseur","14":"tag-home-page","15":"tag-lewis-hamilton","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114777847471563057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229217","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=229217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}