Ferrari's Tumultuous Season: Sainz's Perspective Revealed
Jun.13 - For the first time in several years, Carlos Sainz is viewing the latest "chaos" at Ferrari as an outsider.
As another season unfolds in which the Maranello based team looks unlikely to be champion, the partisan Italian press has begun to pile on the pressure.
The headline at Corriere della Sera proclaimed: "(Charles) Leclerc has lost confidence and could leave. And (Lewis) Hamilton doesn't feel listened to."
Another aspect of the latest rumblings is that Frederic Vasseur may now be on a three-race ultimatum based on an improvement of the 2025 car's current form - or could face the axe at the end of the season.
"Vasseur's work is being scrutinised by the top of the company amid Hamilton's outbursts and Leclerc's doubts," the newspaper continued.
"His (Vasseur's) position is no longer unassailable."
The rumours suggest Ferrari may be considering replacing Vasseur with Antonello Coletta, the boss of the Italian marque's increasingly successful WEC team.
"In the past, he (Coletta) was approached to lead the F1 branch, but he politely declined. Now that he has won everything, it would be harder to say no again," Corriere claims.
Also reportedly in doubt is Leclerc's faith in the team. "From his immediate environment, it can be heard that questions are being asked about the contract that ties him to Maranello until 2029," the newspaper said.
"His fear is that in 2026 he will be back in a red car that cannot keep up with the new regulations. Mercedes, on the other hand, are considered to have a technical advantage thanks to their engine."
La Gazzetta dello Sport agrees that the "next three races will be decisive" for the future of Ferrari.
When asked about the speculation, Leclerc said in Montreal: "I don't comment on rumours. You know I love Ferrari.
"I don't to hear these things about Fred either, so I have nothing to comment on. I believe in Fred as Fred has always believed in me," he told Sky Italia.
As for the fact that Hamilton's future is also part of the speculation, Leclerc added: "Fred, Lewis and I share a long term vision and a common goal and we want to achieve it together."
40-year-old Hamilton told reporters in Canada: "Please stop making stuff up."
When asked for his take on the latest red-coloured crisis, former Ferrari driver Sainz said on Thursday: "It's the same thing as always - whenever Ferrari doesn't perform, the media tries to point the finger at who is responsible.
"That's why all this chaos happens."
A Ferrari spokesman said simply: "No comment."
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He shouldn't even care anymore & Lewis' ''Please stop making stuff up'' plead couldn't be more spot-on since this typical F1 thing of claiming all sorts of things without concrete evidence or that couldn't realistically be true, especially when contradictory & inconsistent, is something that has annoyed for a long time.
Yes. F1 News = gossip a lot of the time. Gossip can turn out to be true, but more by luck than anything else if it started without any basis in fact.
So we cant theorize or hypothesize or even have opinions, ermm why not?
That’s all ok, it’s the complete rubbish on social media, lies designed to mislead just for click bait that is wrong.
i watched Lulu praising Fred, well of course he is, Freds the reason hes there , yeah right, by supporting Fred it draws any blame away from her performance in the car,and Freds supporting her, its a complete farce, Charlie deserves more, as for Fred calling out the media , Italian and British media are the roughest most harsh media in F1 and Brundle saying its not the premier league, the media is there to make money thats all they care about , but Italy is Ferrari, winning is all that matters, Fred doesnt matter, Lucy doesnt matter, Winning matters
So i dont expect them to stop, and if people dont like it, dont read it, oh and it be amiss if i didnt mention another major fault they've discovered with her car, how many is that now? must be at least 10 if not 20 things that are stopping her from going fast, and calling for development to stop on the 25 car, thats another excuse in the bag, how naive is she
You have problems that need addressing, are you attempting to insult using the pronoun SHE and girl names, why do you do it?
Bigoted, probably, showing hate without reasoning, yep, but deep down their must be an explanation, So WHY???
Who does this Martin Blunder think he is, I believe he works for sky if he does sky is scraping, why, because he is practically insisting that Max should have been disqualified with penalties, no wonder this guy works for sky, he never won a wdc in his career, if he can try to dominate max by threatening him with disqualification for doing what he is there to do, win races then I can have a go at him, get rid & bring on the girls I say. I'm fed up with him and yesterday was the last straw.
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