Fred Vasseur believes that Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari both needed \u201ctime to be on the same page\u201d when it came to certain details as the partnership between the two sides began this season.<\/p>\n
Hamilton<\/a> took the F1 world by surprise when his headline switch to the Scuderia on a multi-year deal starting from 2025 was announced ahead of the 2024 campaign getting underway, bringing his extensive and hugely successful relationship with Mercedes<\/a> to an end.<\/p>\n The seven-time World Champion has faced mixed fortunes during his debut season as a Ferrari<\/a> driver but recently shared positive comments about how he is adapting to the SF-25, having said after the United States Grand Prix<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m finally feeling like I\u2019m on top of the car.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked one week later in Mexico about how much work had gone into Hamilton and the team reaching this point, Vasseur<\/a> explained the importance of ensuring that the squad are on top of every detail given how close the competition is.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s like this from the beginning of the season, that the field is mega, mega tight this year, that you have guys moving from P18 sometimes to P3 or P4,\u201d said Vasseur. \u201cIt means that if you leave something on the table, you are losing positions.<\/p>\n \u201cLewis needed \u2013 and the team needed \u2013 time to be exactly on the same page on some details, and for every single detail today you are losing positions. It means that we need to be in full control of everything, and it\u2019s the clear target for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n While Hamilton is still searching for a maiden Grand Prix podium in red, Ferrari have enjoyed visits to the rostrum lately with Charles Leclerc<\/a>, the Monegasque having claimed a P3 in Austin before following this up with a P2 finish in Mexico seven days on.<\/p>\n Speaking before the result at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Vasseur admitted that the squad\u2019s return to the podium at the Circuit of The Americas had offered them encouragement as they fight for second in the Teams\u2019 Championship<\/a> against Mercedes and Red Bull<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a good push for the motivation but, in any case, we are motivated by the target to finish P2,\u201d the Team Principal conceded. \u201cIt\u2019s a good challenge, a long fight until the end of the championship, and let\u2019s see what will happen in the next weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n Although Ferrari retook second place in Mexico, the Silver Arrows remain only one point behind in third while fourth-placed Red Bull have only a 10-point deficit to the Italian team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fred Vasseur believes that Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari both needed \u201ctime to be on the same page\u201d when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-253279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}