Fred Vasseur STORMS OUT of Interview, REFUSES to Answer ONE Question About Lewis Hamilton After “Bleak” Las Vegas GP
Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has had to defend Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc after a troubling 2025 Formula 1 campaign.
After narrowly missing out on the constructors’ championship last year, Ferrari will be lucky if they finish in the top three in the standings this season.
Max Verstappen won the Las Vegas Grand Prix, and after McLaren’s double disqualification, he was joined on the podium by both Mercedes drivers.
Charles Leclerc missed out on a top-three finish by 0.1 seconds after Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s penalty was taken into account, while Lewis Hamilton could only recover to P8 after starting at the back of the grid.
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Hamilton was even asked about his immediate F1 future because he was so forlorn during his post-race media duties.
Journalist Julianne Cerasoli has now addressed the feeling within the Ferrari camp at this stage of the season.
She admitted that Fred Vasseur will do everything he can to avoid talking about Hamilton’s lack of pace over a race weekend that highlighted everything that’s going wrong for the Maranello-based outfit.
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Fred Vasseur refuses to talk about Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton’s race pace
Cerasoli was analysing the Las Vegas Grand Prix on the Pit Pass F1 Podcast.
When speaking about Ferrari, she said: “With Hulkenberg and Hamilton, it’s interesting that the Sauber tyre models were showing that Hamilton would overtake Nico Hulkenberg in the end, but that didn’t happen.
“So Lewis’ pace was not very good at the end of the race.
“This is something, it’s really hard to speak to Fred Vasseur after the race because he really doesn’t want to give away much.
“We asked about Lewis’ pace and all that, and he talks about something else, so it’s really hard to understand what happened there.
“Lewis wasn’t happy at all at the end of the race. It’s been a bad run for him in terms of results and not as bad in terms of the feeling with the car.
“Let’s see what the end of the season is like for him, but it does look a little bit bleak for the seven-time world champion.”
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Lewis Hamilton radio messages at the Las Vegas Grand Prix highlight his 2025 woes
Throughout the season, Hamilton and Leclerc have been vocal about the SF-25 not working in the way that they believe it should.
Questions were asked about Ferrari’s mid-season update packages, and while they may have widened the performance window of the car, they’ve not made it any faster.
Hamilton became the first Ferrari driver since Giancarlo Fisichella to qualify last without a penalty or mechanical fault, and after a brilliant start, he stopped making progress.
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After his final pit stop, the seven-time world champion slowly fell away from Sauber driver Nico Hulkenberg while expertly defending from Fernando Alonso.
Hamilton’s radio messages in Las Vegas were troubling, as he complained about his brakes and the decision to bring him into the pits as early as they did.
The 40-year-old has been comprehensively beaten by Leclerc across qualifying and Grand Prix this season.
It’s now mathematically impossible for him to beat his teammate in the drivers’ championship, and the winter break needs to be a full reset for Hamilton if he’s going to return to his best.
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