Ferrari insider explains the ‘very worrying’ message Lewis Hamilton has sent about the team’s internal issues

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Ferrari are nowhere near where they would like to be in either Formula 1 championship this season.

McLaren could realistically stretch their lead to 200 points over Ferrari in the constructors’ championship at the Austrian Grand Prix this weekend.

Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc are still searching for their Grand Prix victory in 2025, with the seven-time world champion clinging onto his Sprint Race win in China as his crowning moment since joining the Scuderia.

Team principal Fred Vasseur came so close to ending Ferrari’s wait for a championship last season.

One slip-up from Lando Norris at the season finale in Abu Dhabi would have been enough, but the drop-off from Ferrari over the past six months has been stark.

Vasseur’s job at Ferrari is under pressure with his contract set to expire at the end of the season.

Ferrari chairman John Elkann has stayed quiet on Vasseur’s prospects, but it’s clear that the team aren’t happy with the predicament they find themselves in.

Hamilton has aimed his frustrations at himself throughout the campaign, but it’s hard to believe that everything is going smoothly at the team’s factory at Maranello.

Former Ferrari race engineer and executive coordinator Luigi Mazzola has shared his thoughts on what’s happening at his old team.

Mazzola, who worked closely with Michael Schumacher, witnessed his fair share of internal politics at Ferrari, something Vasseur has been desperate to avoid during his time in charge.

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Lewis Hamilton’s Canadian Grand Prix comments suggest ‘very worrying’ internal Ferrari issues

Mazzola was speaking to Sky Race Anatomy on Italian television about Ferrari’s performance in Canada and explained: “Hamilton’s interview [after the Canadian Grand Prix] is sensational, you have to read it well. It talks about organisation, about mentality.

“[Hamilton] has found himself in a team that needs to be rebuilt, as his father also said some time ago. Then he talks about these developments not coming, when we are in the tenth race now.

“All this leaves me very perplexed, because from a team like Ferrari, you expect all the infrastructure to win, not that Hamilton arrives and says everything is missing.

“Within the company, there should already be this mentality, and if it’s not there, it’s a worrying thing, very worrying. Obviously, around him [Hamilton], there is something that doesn’t add up.”

Hamilton suffered brake issues in Canada as well as hitting a groundhog, which destroyed part of his floor.

“We’re not where we need to be, but we’re fully focused on the steps we need to take to compete at the front,” Hamilton said in his official post-race interview, but the problems Ferrari are facing feel far more ingrained, with very little progress made after 10 Grand Prix.

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Luigi Mazzola says ‘lack of confidence’ is being created at Ferrari after recent performances

One of the other talking points coming out of Canada was Leclerc’s frustration with his race strategy.

David Coulthard praised Ferrari for their response to Leclerc, but the lack of clarity among the team suggests that there are mixed feelings about the team’s best approach during a race.

Mazzola continued: “When all this [media disturbance from outside], there is no calm and serene atmosphere [in the team].

“Both on the part of the drivers and everything that revolves around the driver himself, like the engineers, in my opinion, all [the malaise] stems from a situation of lack of confidence [in the project].

“By now, they have understood [at Ferrari] that there is nothing to do, so even when you could do something during the race, with a different strategy, for example, the car simply doesn’t have the same performance as the others.

“I would say to Vasseur, hats off to him for his position, that the pace he sees on Friday is not the same as on Sunday.”