{"id":25871,"date":"2025-08-18T05:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/vasseur-hamilton-frustrated-not-demotivated-after-hungarian-f1-gp\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T05:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:17:12","slug":"vasseur-hamilton-frustrated-not-demotivated-after-hungarian-f1-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/vasseur-hamilton-frustrated-not-demotivated-after-hungarian-f1-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Vasseur: Hamilton frustrated, not demotivated, after Hungarian F1 GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Vasseur understands Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s frustration after the Hungarian Grand Prix<\/h2>\n\nFerrari team boss Fred Vasseur expressed his complete understanding of Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s frustration during the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend. The seven-time world champion performed below his expectations.\n\nAfter qualifying in 12th position on Saturday, Hamilton expressed his disappointment, even suggesting that Ferrari &#8220;needed to change drivers,&#8221; while his teammate, Charles Leclerc, achieved pole position.\n\nAfter finishing Sunday&#8217;s race also in 12th position, Hamilton reiterated his feelings from the previous day.\n\nWhen asked if he had a plan to motivate Hamilton during the summer break and improve his performance, Vasseur replied that such a conversation was not necessary.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0804%2Fr1527611_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Lewis Hamilton tuvo un fin de semana de carrera decepcionante en Hungr\u00eda.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>Lewis Hamilton had a disappointing race weekend in Hungary.<\/em>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I don&#8217;t need to motivate him. Honestly, he&#8217;s frustrated, but not demotivated. I understand the situation perfectly.<\/p>\n<cite>Fred Vasseur<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nVasseur explained that the drivers&#8217; reactions, driven by the pressure of competition, are understandable and that the team shares the same frustration.\n\nVasseur insists that the difference between Leclerc and Hamilton was not as big as it seemed in qualifying, as Hamilton was only 0.015 seconds away from advancing to the next round.\n\nFerrari&#8217;s boss believes Hamilton&#8217;s frustration is due to his high expectations of competing at the top.\n\nVasseur added:\n\n&#8220;He is demanding. But I think that&#8217;s also why he&#8217;s a seven-time world champion, he&#8217;s demanding of the team, of the car, of the engineers, of the mechanics, of me too. But, above all, he is very demanding of himself.&#8221;\n\nVasseur concluded that Hamilton&#8217;s performance in qualifying did not reflect the true performance difference and that the driver&#8217;s frustration is understandable.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vasseur understands Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s frustration after the Hungarian Grand Prix Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur expressed his complete understanding of Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s frustration during the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend. The seven-time world champion performed below his expectations. After qualifying in 12th position on Saturday, Hamilton expressed his disappointment, even suggesting that Ferrari &#8220;needed to change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[647,4001,6554,648],"class_list":{"0":"post-25871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-ferrari","9":"tag-fred-vasseur","10":"tag-hungarian-grand-prix","11":"tag-lewis-hamilton"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}