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Lewis Hamilton releases statement after Ferrari F1 replacement claims
Lewis Hamilton has hit back at claims he has been trying to replace personnel inside Ferrari as his and the team’s season continue to implode.
For much of this campaign, Hamilton and Ferrari have been considered as chief challengers to Kimi Antonelli and Mercedes in the drivers’ and constructors’ championships respectively.
But having been 32 points behind Antonelli after landing a Silverstone podium in July, Hamilton hasn’t finished in the top three since, retiring at the most recent event in Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix, his first DNF of the season.
Now Hamilton is 101 points behind the Italian, leaving him and Ferrari’s hopes of ending the team’s championship drought stretching back to 2008 all but extinguished.
Basically, it’s that time of the season where Ferrari do some soul searching, a process that had already started following the Italian Grand Prix earlier in September.
A clash between Hamilton and Charles Leclerc led to the 41-year-old saying that the team needed to implement a code-of-conduct between the team’s drivers, something that team boss Fred Vasseur did not act on.
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Hamilton denies replacement claims
That brings us to this week when an Italian publication claimed Hamilton was trying to make changes at Ferrari to get them more in line with the operation he had at Mercedes where he won six world titles.
The publication also noted that Hamilton’s relationship with Vasseur had become more strained and ‘no longer what it once was.’
Many publications have since reported these claims as Hamilton wants people ‘sacked’ at Ferrari, but the seven-time world champion has quickly released a statement claiming otherwise.
Posting a message on his Instagram stories with an image of Ferrari crew, Hamilton has since denied claims he is looking to change personnel at the team.
The Ferrari star said: “I’ve seen some of the stories that have gone out and I want to clear it up here. I’ve never asked for anyone on my team to be replaced.
“Everyone I work with works hard every day, and their dedication is what moves us forward.
“I always try to empower and lift people to be the best versions of themselves or at least see the best in themselves.
“I may not always achieve that but it’s my intention and what I’m here to do. We all work together and that will continue.”
Hamilton’s Ferrari change
Hamilton has already had a crucial change made at Ferrari during his two years at the team.
After a tough first season, a decision was made to move his race engineer Riccardo Adami to another department after the two struggled to communicate and gel with each other during the season.
Since then, Hamilton has been a lot happier with his new race engineer Carlo Santi as he looks to mould Ferrari into a winning team again.
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‘Lewis will never trust Charles again’ – F1 journalist issues shocking Ferrari statement – GPFans.com
F1 insider Peter Windsor believes Lewis Hamilton will struggle to trust Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc again.
The Scuderia continue to wrestle with the issue of having two number one drivers and apparently no defined rules of engagement for how they race on track.
Frustration bubbled to the surface after the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort in late August, when Hamilton believed flawed strategy cost him a podium.
That frustration then boiled over after Monza last weekend when Leclerc and Hamilton made contact on Lap 1 of the Italian Grand Prix.
Afterwards Hamilton laid the blame squarely at Leclerc’s feet, and the Monegasque later admitted responsibility for an incident which cost Lewis several positions.
While now we appear to have peace after both said the right things at the Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid, the underlying issue surely remains.
It’s an issue that former team manager turned journalist Windsor says he called right from the moment Hamilton put pen to paper on that $60million-per-year Maranello contract.
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Hamilton vs Leclerc drama so predictable – Windsor
Speaking to Cameron Cc on YouTube, he claimed: “Because Charles is so easy to read, it was so predictable that he was going to do that. If those two guys are near one other, side by side going into the first corner, for sure there’s going to be a drama. Anybody with a racing brain would have predicted that.
“And Lewis for sure would have known that Charles is gonna do that and edge him out, I would have thought. I just don’t know what he was thinking, was he suddenly thinking Charles was a different guy and was gonna give him loads of room?”
So how do Hamilton and Leclerc move forward after their latest drama? Windsor believes for one thing it will have been a grim moment of clarity for the seven-time world champion.
“I’m sure Lewis now will never trust Charles again, but it’s taken a long time for the penny to drop,” he claimed.
Windsor believes Ferrari were heading directly to the scene of the accident from the moment Hamilton agreed to move to Maranello, with Leclerc as his team-mate. Everything since then, none of it is in the least bit surprising.
“I’m a Charles fan, I’m a Lewis fan, I love both of them, I love watching both of them drive and I like them as people very much.
“But not in a million years would I ever put them in the same team together. Never.
“I would have kept Sainz and then replaced Charles if I wanted Lewis Hamilton that badly.
“Equally I would have kept Sainz with Charles but I would never put Charles with Lewis.”
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