Ferrari “not worried at all” over Hamilton’s not fast anymore remarks

Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has mentioned he has zero considerations about Lewis Hamilton’s pace, regardless of the troublesome finish to the Method 1 season he’s having with Mercedes.

Hamilton has struggled to extract as a lot tempo out of the W15 automobile constantly this yr as his team-mate George Russell.

The seven-time champion additionally had a torrid time on the Qatar Grand Prix as he got here house twelfth after a bounce begin, a puncture and a drive-through penalty for rushing within the pitlane.

Hamilton accepts that issues should not working, for causes that he can’t clarify, as he admitted that the efficiency is solely not there in the intervening time.

On Friday in Qatar, he raised eyebrows when he mentioned: “I am positively not quick anymore.”

However whereas issues should not clicking with Mercedes proper now, his future employer Ferrari doesn’t see something to be alarmed about.

And its workforce boss Vasseur, who has identified Hamilton for years, believes performances like his cost from tenth on the grid to complete second in Las Vegas spotlight simply how good he stays.

Requested if he was nervous about Hamilton’s remarks, Vasseur mentioned: “By no means. Take a look on the 50 laps that he did in Vegas.

“Beginning P10, ending on the gearbox of Russell, I am not nervous in any respect.”

Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W15

Photograph by: Sam Bloxham / Motorsport Photographs

Mercedes send-off

Hamilton is heading into his ultimate race weekend with Mercedes in Abu Dhabi, which is certain to be an emotional send-off.

And whereas outcomes could also be onerous to get in the intervening time, workforce boss Toto Wolff says that the present challenges is not going to cloud the reminiscences of the success their title-winning partnership produced since they got here collectively in 2013.

Talking about coping with the circumstances of this season, figuring out Hamilton was leaving, Wolff mentioned: “To be sincere, I believe we have all of us collectively, Lewis and the workforce, we have finished an excellent job of that.

“When he took the choice initially of the season to go, we knew it was going to be a bumpy yr forward, and it is very regular.

“He is aware of he’s going to go some place else. We all know our future lies with Kimi [Antonelli] after which to undergo the ups and downs, and nonetheless preserve it collectively between us, I believe that’s one thing we now have achieved.

“Now you see these very unhealthy races. Clearly, he wears his coronary heart on the sleeve. You specific your feelings and that is completely allowed. It is okay.

“However nothing goes to remove 12 unimaginable years with eight constructors’ and 6 drivers’ championships. And that’s what can be within the reminiscence.

“After subsequent Sunday, we’ll look again at this nice time period moderately than a season of races that have been significantly unhealthy. We are going to stick with the great reminiscences.”

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