Juan Pablo Montoya thinks Ferrari are now ‘realising’ Lewis Hamilton was right all along about their 2025 F1 car

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Ferrari are in need of a huge reset over the 2025 summer break after a frustrating first half of the season.

The Maranello outfit are second in the constructors’ championship, but they are still the only top-four team without a win in 2025. Ferrari have scored five podiums thus far, all courtesy of Charles Leclerc.

A shock win was on the cards at the Hungarian GP when Leclerc took pole position. However, the pace of the McLarens and a botched strategy left him finishing P4, with Leclerc having to be stopped from ‘exploding’ in the media pen.

That has been the story of Ferrari’s season, as they struggle to find the right balance with the SF-25 or perfect a race weekend with a strong strategy. Yet, Leclerc can still get the most out of the machine with five podiums, unlike teammate Lewis Hamilton.

The seven-time world champion is still waiting for his first podium in red colours. His Sprint win in Shanghai has been followed by frustration and disappointment, with Hamilton even suggesting to Ferrari that he should be replaced after starting and finishing P12 in Budapest.

Juan Pablo Montoya thinks Ferrari are now ‘realising’ that their foundation is ‘not good’

Ferrari are not turning a ‘blind eye’ to Hamilton’s comments, but there is no indication that the team will actually act on them. What it does highlight is that there is significant work that needs to happen in Maranello, and Juan Pablo Montoya thinks they are now ‘realising’ it.

Speaking via AS Colombia, the former F1 driver says Ferrari know that their ‘foundation’ is not good enough, and it has left Hamilton and Leclerc with an ‘unpredictable’ car.

“I really think it’s not a question of age, it’s a question of Hamilton spending many years driving a certain type of car and a certain type of feeling.

“And the Ferrari was completely different, and the Ferrari is not an easy car to drive. And I think Ferrari is realising that what they have, their foundation, is not good.

“It’s an unpredictable car, a complicated car and they have to step back a bit from what they’re doing because what they’re doing isn’t going to work for them.”

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Lewis Hamilton has been critical of Ferrari’s operation in 2025

Since the turn of the ground effect era in 2022, the seven-time champion has struggled with this generation of cars. Hamilton felt the Mercedes was ‘unpredictable’ to drive and he faces the same problem at Ferrari, but the issue may be deeper than that in Maranello.

Hamilton has been sending documents to Ferrari detailing how he thinks the team can improve the car and their operations. This is a normal thing for drivers to do, but it is surprising to see at the Maranello outfit.

Hamilton is doing something not even Michael Schumacher did in questioning Ferrari’s way of working. The team are notorious for running in a certain way and are stubborn when it comes to changing it.

Hamilton detailed three critical points in his documents to the team, including what he felt about the car and the team itself. With Ferrari in danger of losing second in the standings, they may now be realising that the 40-year-old was right all along.