{"id":29141,"date":"2025-08-28T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/hamilton-and-ferrari-vasseur-reveals-mistake-in-underestimating-the-change\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T05:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:21:00","slug":"hamilton-and-ferrari-vasseur-reveals-mistake-in-underestimating-the-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/hamilton-and-ferrari-vasseur-reveals-mistake-in-underestimating-the-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton and Ferrari: Vasseur reveals mistake in underestimating the change"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Vasseur Admits Underestimation in Hamilton&#8217;s Adaptation to Ferrari<\/h2>\n\nFerrari boss Fred Vasseur has revealed that both he and Lewis Hamilton underestimated the challenge the driver&#8217;s transition to the Italian team would entail.\n\nHamilton&#8217;s arrival at Ferrari generated high expectations, but so far, the seven-time world champion has not managed to get on the podium with the team.\n\nAfter a complicated Hungarian Grand Prix, Hamilton expressed his frustration by suggesting that Ferrari &#8220;probably needs to change drivers&#8221;.\n\nIn addition, the pilot added that &#8220;there are many things happening in the background&#8230; That&#8217;s not good&#8221;.\n\nVasseur, who was key to signing Hamilton 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=\"\"><\/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\">\n<p>&#8220;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; said Vasseur.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Fred Vasseur<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nFerrari&#8217;s boss explained that Hamilton spent a long time in a similar environment, first at McLaren and then at Mercedes, sharing personnel and culture.\n\nVasseur added: &#8220;So he was from 2006 to 2024, 18 years, in this environment, and then he arrived at Ferrari. And stupidly we expected him to have everything under control.&#8221;\n\nMeanwhile, his teammate, Charles Leclerc, has managed to get on the podium five times this season.\n\nHamilton signed a contract for 60 million pounds sterling a year, valid until the end of 2026.\n\nThe British driver, considered one of the greatest in Formula 1 history, has stated that his main objective is next season, when new rules that will change the F1 cars are implemented.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vasseur Admits Underestimation in Hamilton&#8217;s Adaptation to Ferrari Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has revealed that both he and Lewis Hamilton underestimated the challenge the driver&#8217;s transition to the Italian team would entail. Hamilton&#8217;s arrival at Ferrari generated high expectations, but so far, the seven-time world champion has not managed to get on the podium with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[657,647,4001,648],"class_list":{"0":"post-29141","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\/29141","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=29141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}