{"id":27148,"date":"2025-08-22T05:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/hamilton-and-ferrari-vasseur-admits-underestimation-of-change-in-f1\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T05:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:17:17","slug":"hamilton-and-ferrari-vasseur-admits-underestimation-of-change-in-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/hamilton-and-ferrari-vasseur-admits-underestimation-of-change-in-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton and Ferrari: Vasseur Admits Underestimation of Change in F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Vasseur Admits Underestimation in Hamilton&#8217;s Adaptation to 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 driver would face when joining the team.\n\nThe expectation generated by Hamilton&#8217;s signing for Ferrari has not materialized this year, as the seven-time world champion has yet to reach the podium with the team.\n\nDuring a difficult Hungarian Grand Prix, a disheartened Hamilton insinuated that Ferrari &#8220;probably needs to change drivers&#8221;.\n\nHe also added that &#8220;there are many things happening in the background&#8230; That&#8217;s not good.&#8221;\n\nVasseur, who was fundamental 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.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nVasseur highlighted 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 he spent, for me, 20 years on the same team,&#8221; Vasseur declared.<\/p><cite>Fred Vasseur<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nFerrari&#8217;s boss explained that Hamilton spent a long time in a similar environment at McLaren and Mercedes, with the same culture and personnel. Now, upon arriving at Ferrari, expectations were high.\n\nTeammate Charles Leclerc has been on the podium five times this season.\n\nHamilton signed a contract worth \u00a360 million a year, which keeps him on the team until the end of 2026.\n\nThe English driver, statistically the best in the history of Formula 1, said from the beginning that he was looking at the next season, when a complete change of F1 cars will come into effect thanks to a new set of rules, for his challenge for the championship.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vasseur Admits Underestimation in Hamilton&#8217;s Adaptation to Ferrari Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has acknowledged that both he and Lewis Hamilton &#8220;stupidly&#8221; underestimated the magnitude of the challenge the driver would face when joining the team. The expectation generated by Hamilton&#8217;s signing for Ferrari has not materialized this year, as the seven-time world champion has yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[657,647,4001,648],"class_list":{"0":"post-27148","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\/27148","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=27148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}