Warning for Hamilton: 'He won't make Ferrari world champions overnight'

10:00, 15 May 2024
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This week it was announced that Ferrari have made two high-profile recruitments from Mercedes, by signing Jerome d'Ambrosio as its deputy team principal, as well as Loic Serra as the head of chassis performance engineering. On the Sky Sports F1 podcast, the pundits discussed how team principal Fred Vasseur is beginning to build a team which could lead Ferrari to secure a world championship in 2025.
In February, it was announced that Ferrari had signed Lewis Hamilton from 2025. However, as the podcast hosts pointed out, there are a variety of key personnel making the move for the 2025 project.
"Hamilton alone is not going to make Ferrari world champions over night. They have to build the team in the way that, you rewind to the nineties and they did that around Michael Schumacher. Michael going on his own in 96 for example didn't suddently make them world champions. All of these other people move in to come and restructure the whole thing, and you'd have to say Fred Vasseur is doing an amazing job," Karun Chandhok said.

Is Adrian Newey still a possibility for the team?

Ferrari appeared to be the favourites to sign the designer who has formally announced that he is leaving Red Bull and available from 2025. As Chandhok suggested, no one is sure just yet whether it will happen though: "Whether they get Adrian Newey is still the big question mark that everyone's waiting to see how that unfolds. I genuinely believe what Adrian was saying to Martin [Brundle] in Miami, which is I think he is going to just have some time off and consider his options."
"Whether he finally goes there would be another story."
Nevertheless, Ferrari announced their signings of two key-personnel this week, including Serra who is "very highly rated in the engineering and hero team up at Mercedes," and d'Ambrosio, who "brings driving experience, but also, he brings management experience. He worked as a team principal in Formula E. He worked closely with Toto Wolff at Mercedes on various bits of pieces," too.
As Chandhok highlighted, Vasseur is beginning to build his team: "There is just so much to do at Ferrari as part of his project rehabilitation to make them world champions again. For Fred to get a breadth of people with experience within the team is a great move. I think what Fred Vasseur is done and doing is making Ferrari."
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Mech Engineer 15 May 2024 at 16:50+ 55785

What makes Ferrari think that he will be any better than Sainz?
He is being beaten in qualifying and race results by Russell this season and I don't see him beating Charles either next year.
All Ferrari will end up with is an overly expensive and hyped up driver who is not going to be any better than the (much cheaper) driver that he is replacing.

Devvvv 15 May 2024 at 18:24+ 1484

Ever since lewis has been announced by ferrari, have you been able to sleep bro?

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Mavric 15 May 2024 at 21:17+ 19033

It take lewis time to get use to the car and how the team work .and it wont be easy for lewis .first of at ferrari its a team not like how lewis had it at merc

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Vegan Warrior 15 May 2024 at 21:22+ 4957

Ferrari is Ferrari; they go against the logic of many. The Tifosi and Lewis have had a long courtship that started with hate and then turned into love. I won't forget in 2019 when the Tifosi chanted for Lewis to join Ferrari....

It's finally happened. Whatever happens, it has been an inevitable meeting together. ❤ Unfortunately, Sainz doesn't have that connection with Ferrari, and sadly, no matter what he does for Ferrari, he never will.

As for the point on money, you can't put a price on the fulfillment of a destiny—the most successful driver at the most successful team in F1.

Ferrari doesn't follow logic; they follow their heart, and they wanted Lewis. They got Lewis.