{"id":26896,"date":"2025-08-21T07:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/hamilton-and-ferrari-vasseur-admits-underestimating-the-drivers-challenge\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T07:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:10:11","slug":"hamilton-and-ferrari-vasseur-admits-underestimating-the-drivers-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/hamilton-and-ferrari-vasseur-admits-underestimating-the-drivers-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton and Ferrari: Vasseur Admits Underestimating the Driver&#8217;s Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Vasseur Admits They Underestimated Hamilton&#8217;s Challenge at Ferrari<\/h2>\n\nFerrari boss Fred Vasseur has acknowledged that both he and Lewis Hamilton &#8220;stupidly&#8221; underestimated the magnitude of the challenge the British driver would face when joining the team.\n\nThe expectation generated by Hamilton&#8217;s signing for Ferrari has not translated into results so far this season, as the seven-time world champion has yet to reach the podium with the Italian team.\n\nDuring a difficult Hungarian Grand Prix, a disheartened Hamilton suggested that Ferrari &#8220;probably needs to change drivers&#8221;.\n\nFurthermore, he added that &#8220;there is a lot going on in the background&#8230; That is not good&#8221;.\n\nVasseur, who was key in his signing from Mercedes, has defended his driver&#8217;s performance.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0821%2Fr1534650_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Lewis Hamilton junto a Fred Vasseur en Ferrari al inicio de esta temporada. MARCO BERTORELLO\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nVasseur pointed out the magnitude of the change for Hamilton.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Lewis and I, collectively, probably underestimated the change of environment and the fact that I spent, for me, 20 years on the same team,&#8221; Vasseur commented.<\/p><cite>Fred Vasseur<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe teammate, Charles Leclerc, has managed to get on the podium five times this season.\n\nHamilton signed a contract worth 60 million pounds sterling ($81 million) per year, which will keep him on the team until the end of 2026.\n\nThe English driver, statistically the best in Formula 1 history, stated from the beginning that his goal is next season, when a complete change in F1 cars will come into effect thanks to a new set of rules, to fight for the championship.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vasseur Admits They Underestimated Hamilton&#8217;s Challenge at Ferrari Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has acknowledged that both he and Lewis Hamilton &#8220;stupidly&#8221; underestimated the magnitude of the challenge the British driver would face when joining the team. The expectation generated by Hamilton&#8217;s signing for Ferrari has not translated into results so far this season, as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[657,647,4001,648],"class_list":{"0":"post-26896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-ferrari","10":"tag-fred-vasseur","11":"tag-lewis-hamilton"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26896","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=26896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}