Ferrari workforce 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 “most likely want to vary 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 notably,” Hamilton instructed Sky Sports activities. “When you have got a sense, you have got a sense. There’s quite a bit occurring within the background that’s not nice, so…”
Hamilton did add that, “I nonetheless love the workforce,” when pushed on his love of racing, and Vasseur says followers shouldn’t take his demeanor in Budapest as a scarcity of motivation.
“I needn’t inspire him,” Vasseur mentioned. “Truthfully, he is annoyed, however not demotivated. It is a fully completely different story. I can completely perceive the scenario. Generally you make feedback on what the motive force is saying within the automobile, however when you put the microphone on another sportsmen in soccer and so forth, I am unsure that it could be significantly better.
“They’re within the efficiency and typically they’re making feedback, even once they leap out of the automobile. 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 disillusioned and the primary response is harsh.
“Everyone knows that we’re pushing in the identical path and the great aspect of at the moment is that, once we are placing the whole lot collectively, we’re in a position to 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 tip. Now now we have to search out why we misplaced the tempo and to right it for the following one.”
Vasseur additionally says the tip end result 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 12 months.
“I would like to do P1 and P1, however we already know that you could possibly ask the identical query to Max,” he mentioned. “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 nicely. Then we took some bets, and while you do a wager like this to start out with hards, that you may lose positions or not. We misplaced, after which we did the wager additionally to go for one cease, as a result of if you find yourself P14 and you’ve got a prepare of DRS, you need to do completely different, and it did not work.”
