Ferrari staff principal Fred Vasseur says Lewis Hamilton is annoyed however not demotivated after numerous harsh feedback through the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend.
Hamilton described himself as “completely ineffective” after dropping out in Q2 in qualifying, including that Ferrari “in all probability want to alter driver” after seeing teammate Charles Leclerc take pole place. The seven-time world champion was equally downbeat after ending twelfth – the identical place he began – saying he wouldn’t change his earlier feedback.
“Not significantly,” Hamilton instructed Sky Sports activities. “When you might have a sense, you might have a sense. There’s lots occurring within the background that’s not nice, so…”
Hamilton did add that, “I nonetheless love the staff,” when pushed on his love of racing, and Vasseur says followers mustn’t take his demeanor in Budapest as an absence of motivation.
“I needn’t encourage him,” Vasseur stated. “Truthfully, he is annoyed, however not demotivated. It is a utterly completely different story. I can completely perceive the state of affairs. Generally you’re making feedback on what the motive force is saying within the automotive, however when you put the microphone on another sportsmen in soccer and so forth, I am undecided that it might be a lot better.
“They’re within the efficiency and typically they’re making feedback, even once they soar out of the automotive. I can perceive the frustration, however we’re all annoyed. Generally when you ask me, I am unable to [answer immediately]; I’ll go to the stewards! However typically simply after the race or simply after qualifying, you’re very dissatisfied and the primary response is harsh.
“Everyone knows that we’re pushing in the identical route and the great facet of right this moment is that, after we are placing every thing collectively, we’re capable of do the pole place and to guide the primary 40 laps. If you’ll be able to lead the primary 40 laps, you’ll be able to go to the top. Now we have now to search out why we misplaced the tempo and to appropriate it for the following one.”
Vasseur additionally says the top consequence on the Hungaroring was a byproduct of the beginning place, pointing to Max Verstappen’s ninth-placed end after a difficult qualifying as one other instance of how aggressive the sector is that this yr.
“I would favor to do P1 and P1, however we already know that you can ask the identical query to Max,” he stated. “As a championship, this season is totally completely different – it’s extremely, very tight. If you end up not on the tempo, you are able to do [P12] in qualifying.
“We all know that yesterday in qualifying, it did not go effectively. Then we took some bets, and while you do a guess like this to begin with hards, you realize which you could lose positions or not. We misplaced, after which we did the guess additionally to go for one cease, as a result of when you’re P14 and you’ve got a prepare of DRS, you must do completely different, and it did not work.”
