Fred Vasseur on Lewis Hamilton's 2025: "It is a difficult situation for him and for us. Lewis is someone who has a lot of doubts. He had a very complicated 2024 season at Mercedes, without really speaking much with Toto (Wolff) throughout the year, and he was outperformed by Russell in qualifying. What saved him was the group of people who had been working with him for 10 years and with whom he had won six titles. He was able to rely on that warmth and that closeness to get through it."
"Last year, he did not have that reassuring environment, while everything was changing for him: the language, the car, the software, the systems that are the same as at Mercedes but have different names. There were hundreds of things like that which put him on the defensive, while on the other side of the garage there was a Charles who was firmly established within the team. At home!"
"He found himself behind. If Charles was P3/P4, Lewis, just one tenth slower, would find himself P7/P8! He eventually lost his way, even though he also managed some very strong weekends, like in Mexico. The pace was there."
"Starting again from a blank sheet this season can only help him."
[📖 Frederic Vasseur - En piste | via @CL16_inside]
👉 Lewis Hamilton Silverstone yarışı sonrası kendi VIP ağırlama alanında taraftarla sohbet ederken konu Hamilton’ın yaşı ve bunun pist üstündeki etkisine geldi:
🎙️ Hamilton ise bu yorumlara gülümseyerek şu yanıtı verdi:
“Reflekslerimin yavaşladığına dair söylentilerin tamamı saçmalık. Dün startta Kimi’den daha hızlı reaksiyon verdim. Hem de onun yaşı daha 19.”
Ferrari are pushing like this because Lewis Hamilton is leading the charge now. Otherwise it would be business as usual. And finish p3 constructors with Charles Leclerc
So let me get this straight. The FIA is helping Max again because he apparently can never, ever win entirely on his own without the fastest car or cheating by the FIA:
1. Verstappen struggles with race starts, so the FIA changes the rules to make starts easier, while Ferrari's smaller turbo solution gets neutralized. 🤡
2. Verstappen can't keep the car on track because of Red Bull's rushed rear wing design (despite it being a driver issue), and now the FIA is looking into the Ferrari pioneered "Macarena wing" over safety concerns. 🤡
3. Ferrari introduced a rear diffuser solution and the FIA banned it. Mercedes later brought a comparable concept, and it suddenly was allowed. 🤡
4. Ferrari introduced a halo winglet, and you guessed it the FIA banned it. 🤡
5. Ferrari introduced an exhaust wing. And surprise surpise, the FIA is going to ban it in 2027. 🤡
6. Lewis has been penalized by the FIA on multiple occasions for relatively minor or trivial infringements, while others have escaped sanctions for similar actions. 🤡
Imagine the FIA doing this to Red Bull in the previous generation of cars. Of course not, Anything to help Red Bull and the "gEnErAtiOnAL tALeNt".
Not a serious sport. 🤡🤡🤡
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