Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur remains \u201cconvinced\u201d that Lewis Hamilton will get back to his best at Ferrari sooner rather than later, admitting the squad might have \u201cunderestimated\u201d the changes the Briton has experienced so far this year.<\/p>\n
After two lengthy stints at McLaren and Mercedes, Hamilton made a blockbuster move to the Scuderia for the 2025 season \u2013 aiming to help end their championship-winning drought and get back to the top step of the podium himself.<\/p>\n
It has been a mixed campaign for the seven-time World Champion so far, with highs including his Sprint pole position and victory<\/a> at the Chinese Grand Prix, and lows including early Qualifying exits<\/a> and point-less races.<\/p>\n Vasseur, though, is not concerned, underlining the various factors Hamilton has been getting used to in an appearance on F1\u2019s Beyond The Grid<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know if we underestimated the importance of the change,\u201d said Vasseur. \u201cProbably, because he spent 10 years at McLaren, then 12 with Mercedes, but it was a kind of continuity \u2013 two teams based in the UK with the same engine, same environment.<\/p>\n \u201c[Joining Ferrari] is a complete change for him, in his life, the culture of the team and everything. To do it in three test days in the winter period is quite difficult \u2013 and I think also the expectation was huge.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to put everything in place, and it\u2019s taking time. We have to also manage expectations and manage the noise around the team.\u201d<\/p>\n Making reference to F1\u2019s incredibly tight field in 2025, Vasseur continued: \u201cThe comments [about performances] are positive or negative for plus or minus one-tenth of a second, or plus or minus a click of front wing that you did or not \u2013 it\u2019s always marginal.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we are not able to put everything together from the preparation of the weekend, the adaptation to the simulator, blah, blah, blah, until Sunday, you can miss one-tenth there or one-tenth there. This is making a huge difference in terms of pure results.\u201d<\/p>\n Moving forward, Vasseur stressed the importance of support \u2013 in both directions \u2013 as driver and team look to end the current season in a competitive way and approach F1\u2019s upcoming rules reset<\/a> in a good place.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s up to us to support him when he is struggling, and we also need to push him when he\u2019s struggling,\u201d said Vasseur. \u201cSpa<\/a> and Budapest<\/a> were difficult for him, but he can be sure that he has the full support of everyone in Maranello to recover, to be back.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m really convinced that he will do it. We have to be supportive with him every single day, and I will be supportive every single day with Lewis.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a matter of support and mentality. He\u2019s fully committed, he\u2019s pushing like hell. He\u2019s trying to get the best from everybody, and he will always have my support for this.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s a champion, he\u2019s doing very well, and he has the pace. The other characteristic is to try to get the best from the people around you, extra motivation, and extra push. For sure, this characteristic is there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur remains \u201cconvinced\u201d that Lewis Hamilton will get back to his best at Ferrari…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-426126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115208061331437318","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426126","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=426126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}