Juan Pablo Montoya believes he has identified the “biggest problem” at Ferrari, after a recent controversial statement from its chairman.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a double DNF at the Brazilian GP, chairman John Elkann told Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc to “talk less”, in what has been a poor season for the Scuderia.<\/p>\n
In 2024, Ferrari fell just 14 points short of beating McLaren to the constructors’ crown with hopes high of continuing that form into another title push this season – but the team remains without a grand prix win, with three rounds remaining.<\/p>\n
Hamilton is yet to claim a grand prix podium for his new team, as former Williams and McLaren driver Montoya believes the main issue at Maranello is “politics.”<\/p>\n
“The reason he said that is because there\u2019s some internal pressure against him,” Montoya said of Elkann’s comments to AS Colombia.<\/p>\n
“The best way to combat it is to reflect it outward, but you have to realise at some point that the way things are being done isn\u2019t working.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The biggest problem at Ferrari is politics, a lot of politics.”<\/p>\n
Turning to the performance of the SF-25 itself, Montoya delivered a withering assessment, talking about Hamilton’s car in Brazil, although suffering from damage after Turn 1 contact with Carlos Sainz.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Look at the onboard footage of Max, who\u2019s behind Lewis, that car of Lewis\u2026 my God. The Ferrari isn\u2019t good over bumps, but I don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like you need two brain cells to realise how bad they are. At some point, you have to let your guard down and say: ‘Hey, I was wrong, what we\u2019re doing isn\u2019t working, let\u2019s try something different.'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juan Pablo Montoya believes he has identified the “biggest problem” at Ferrari, after a recent controversial statement from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-288291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288291","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=288291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}