Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has highlighted the element of trust with Lewis Hamilton has not been broken despite a difficult on-track period.<\/p>\n
Hamilton has not enjoyed a successful opening season with the Italian squad after making the switch from Mercedes this year.<\/p>\n
Ferrari has not yet taken a grand prix victory this year – the only team inside the top four that has failed to do so – while Hamilton is still awaiting his first podium with the team.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the early season excitement when Hamilton joined, \u00a0Vasseur told The Athletic: \u201cLewis came with a huge expectation and motivation and everything,\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that with Lewis, at the beginning\u2026 in French we say \u2018tout neuf\u2019 \u2014 all nice, all new. And we have to calm down.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMercedes has some items they are doing better, and we are doing better on some other items.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamilton’s peak performance this year came in China, where he secured the sprint pole position and the shorter race victory.<\/p>\n
The 40-year-old has largely been outpaced by team-mate Charles Leclerc during the year, leaving Hamilton to place much of his focus on 2026 when fresh technical regulations will come into play.<\/p>\n
As the two parties seek to construct a strong partnership going forward, Vasseur asserted that no sense of trust has been broken.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say around Barcelona, he came back strong,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s improving into the composition of the team. The team is improving into the composition of Lewis. So we have to make a kind of \u2018mayonnaise\u2019 now!<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to improve step by step. I know that I can trust him and he knows that he can trust me, and this is important.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knows that I will be fully dedicated to the team performance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has highlighted the element of trust with Lewis Hamilton has not been broken…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":["post-216769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","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\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}