{"id":35797,"date":"2025-07-11T14:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=35797"},"modified":"2025-07-11T14:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T18:45:12","slug":"lewis-hamilton-reiterates-full-support-for-fred-vasseur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2025\/07\/11\/lewis-hamilton-reiterates-full-support-for-fred-vasseur\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton Reiterates “Full Support” for Fred Vasseur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton maintains that Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur is integral to the squad’s future prospects. A few weeks after speculation about Vasseur’s Ferrari contract emerged, the 7-time Champion<\/a> emphasised his belief in the Frenchman.<\/p>\n

Hamilton: Vasseur knows how to make Ferrari a winning team<\/h2>\n

In many ways, Ferrari’s 2025 campaign has been a challenging one.<\/p>\n

The Scuderia failed to build on their momentum at the end of last season, leaving them with an SF-25 that was nowhere near McLaren’s MCL39<\/a> at the first round in Australia.<\/p>\n

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Aside from a few exceptions, the first ten races of the year were disappointing for the Maranello outfit.<\/p>\n

In terms of performance, Ferrari were too far behind McLaren<\/a> to realistically fight for wins – and were effectively out of the title fight by the Spanish GP.<\/p>\n

The team’s operational efficiency has also been brought into question, with both Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc expressing dissatisfaction with strategy on numerous occasions.<\/p>\n

Focusing more specifically on Hamilton, the British driver’s adaptation to the SF-25 has not been easy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The car’s characteristics do not suit his driving style, something which has been an apparent limiting factor throughout 2025.<\/p>\n

With that said, Hamilton has given more positive feedback about the SF-25 since the Austria updates.<\/p>\n

After a tidy British GP result, which came after a qualifying where Pole Position was on the cards, the 40-year-old reiterated his support for team principal Fred Vasseur<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“I think Fred is truly the right man to take us to the top,” Gazzetta<\/a> quotes him as saying.<\/em><\/p>\n

“That’s also why I’m working as hard as I can to support him and make the necessary changes, which are quite a few.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I love working with Vasseur. He’s the reason I’m here, and we want to continue together. He has my full support.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Fred brought me to this team, and so I owe him a lot. <\/em><\/p>\n

“As soon as you arrive at a new team, you notice how great the organization is…<\/em>\u00a0And so you can clearly identify the positives and the negatives.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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A chance to catch rivals off guard<\/h4>\n

Although the wet conditions and general chaos of the British GP makes it difficult to assess performance, Ferrari can be quietly optimistic about their direction.<\/p>\n

The SF-25 was a genuine contender for Pole Position, something that has not happened often in 2025.<\/p>\n

This flash of promise came after a solid race in Austria, where Ferrari claimed a comfortable 3-4 as the second fastest team.<\/p>\n

Given that Spielberg is not historically a strong track for the Maranello outfit, their pace was indicative of their updates working as intended.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the consensus is that Ferrari’s first mid-season corrections<\/a> met expectations.<\/p>\n

These small changes will precede bigger changes in the next few weeks, primarily involving the rear suspension.<\/p>\n

For many teams, Silverstone was the last time to introduce any meaningful changes in 2025.<\/p>\n

For Ferrari, however, there is still more lap-time available if their next package delivers more performance and increases the SF-25’s operating window.<\/p>\n

Because teams are now almost entirely focused on 2026, the Scuderia’s scheduled updates could define their second half of the year – as rivals will not bring big changes in response.<\/p>\n

Main photo: Ferrari media gallery<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton maintains that Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur is integral to the squad’s future prospects. A few weeks after speculation about Vasseur’s Ferrari contract emerged, the 7-time Champion emphasised his belief in the Frenchman. Hamilton: Vasseur knows how to make Ferrari a winning team In many ways, Ferrari’s 2025 campaign has been a challenging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4927,"featured_media":35693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[2452,84,721,2416],"class_list":["post-35797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","category-news","tag-f1-2025-season","tag-ferrari","tag-hamilton","tag-vasseur"],"modified_by":"Jaden Diaz-Ndisang","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35859,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35797\/revisions\/35859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}