Fred Vasseur, That is not someone who streets when they ask him precisely, he has launched A message that is not known very well to who is directed. Another bad start of the Scuderia, with Hamilton Eighth and Leclerc on the dry dock By accident in Montreal it seems not to contribute to the tranquility they need.
Fernando Alonso He left at the end of 2014 and released that lapidary phrase, the “Ferrari will not win the World Cup in the next 10 years.” And 11 seasons have passed. The Spanish saw in the lack of hunger of victories and a kind of 'ministry' accommodated in Maranello, the great causes of the lack of titles …
And it is not really just that analysis of totals, because With Vettel they crossed the championship equator twice in the leadership and with Leclerc They started 2023 with a streak with which he had almost 70 points of advantage. They have made winning and very consistent cars, but the disguise developments and certain decisions always ended up lowering them from the first final position.
Last year, with A great season final, full of victories with Leclerc and Sainz, seemed to be the team to beat in 2025, But a decision, that of Changing is suspension scheme in a last year of regulations That nobody has understood, has left them as a current team at the beginning of the course.
Vasseur, a crossroads
The arrival of French to the Headquarters of the F1 team was wrapped in many doubts. Came from Alfa Romeo-SaubeRy before that of Art, an F2 and F3 team, but its new forms and the restructuring it made when landing, seemed to give the team a new air. Everything worked, Sainz was about to renew, but at the beginning of 2024 there was the bombing of Hamilton signing, Carlos was no longer at the 2025 car meetings and Enrico Cardile (the chassis chief) decided go out In May to go to Aston Martin, where he has not yet been released.
And with Loic Serra as Director And without the Madrid working on the setting, many things no longer work. Leclerc has never been the most applied in factory and Hamilton work … He is someone who has come from new. All this was already neighboring Italian colleagues at the end of 2024, that Lewis was not the right person for Ferrari, already at the end of his career and who was an easy victim for Leclerc in the qualifications of Saturday. What was not expected was such an inconsistent car.
Vasseur referred to the sports press with what seems like a monumental anger. “When we release names, When we invented signings that never existed, When we say that Charles (Leclerc) will go to Mercedes next year … the only possible explanation is that it is journalists seeking to generate clicks and make a living with it, or who try to destabilize the team. Or maybe both things “says about them journalists who gave the bombing of Hamilton signing in February 2024 and forced to confirm the news in advance to Ferrari. No one invents these things and usually leave the pilots.
“In any case, if they want to be fans or at least close to the team, it is a failure. We must ask ourselves the right questions if Ferrari has not been winning for years. We have changed the team director, the pilots and practically everything … except one thing “says leaving in the air what it is. The press? Ferrari's headquarters?, President Elkann? The red color of the cars? Or certain positions of departments that have always been untouchable for any director, either Domenicali, Mattiacci, Binotto or Vasseur himself?
“My position is fragile by definition, like that of a football coach. We know that when you do this job, either in Ferrari or anywhere else, it is exposed. I think, on average, there are three team directors that change for season. I did not arrive to Ferrari thinking about staying there all my life. I try to develop the team, make it progress, build something, “he said when they start sound names to replace him, such as Antonello Coletta, the director of the Hypercars team at the Wec.
Vasseur's reaction and his anger only confirm that the crisis is greater than what was thought And it has been touched very close or in the target, from the Italian newspapers.
