Lewis Hamilton is hoping for a different outcome to his tenure at Ferrari than his predecessors Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel. Both drivers, like the Brit, joined the Italian racing team as multiple world champions, but were unable to secure another driver’s title while at Ferrari. Hamilton reveals he is doing everything he can, including sending multiple documents, to avoid the same fate.
Lewis Hamilton has been driving in Ferrari red for half a year now. Apart from successes during the sprint races, the seven-time world champion’s first season with the Scuderia has so far not yielded the hoped-for results. The Brit is still waiting for his first podium finish in service of the Italian team. Hamilton now reveals how he hopes to avoid the same fate as Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel – who preceded him at Ferrari. Both were, like Hamilton, already world champions prior to their time at Ferrari, but were unable to secure another title as Scuderia drivers.
Documents
The seven-time world champion holds several meetings with the top executives within Ferrari, including team boss Frédéric Vasseur and chassis technical director Loïc Serra, and sends the team multiple ‘documents’. In these documents, Hamilton makes suggestions for ‘structural changes’ among other things to improve the team. The world champion also hopes to contribute to the optimization of the car.”The reason for this is that I see an enormous amount of potential in this team,” Hamilton explained in the press conference when asked why he had created these documents. “The passion, nothing comes close to it. It’s a huge organization, and there are many moving parts, and they don’t all work as they should.”
‘I refuse that’
“That’s ultimately why the team hasn’t had the success it deserves, in my opinion,” Hamilton continues. “It’s my job to challenge absolutely everyone within Ferrari, especially the guys at the top making the decisions.” The Brit hopes to achieve what his predecessors Alonso and Vettel failed to do: win a championship with Scuderia.
“When you look at the team over the past twenty years, they’ve had great drivers. They’ve had Kimi (Raikkonen), Fernando, Sebastian, all world champions, but they haven’t won a world championship (with Ferrari, except for Raikkonen),” says Hamilton. “However, for me, I refuse to let that be the case with me.”
