Luca di Montezemolo saddened by what he’s heard Fred Vasseur say about Ferrari

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Ferrari started the 2025 F1 season with high hopes after signing Lewis Hamilton, but the Scuderia remain without a race win in 16 rounds following the Italian Grand Prix.

Hamilton’s F1 Sprint win in China back in round two remains the only triumph that the pride of Italy have so far enjoyed this year. Ferrari are the only one among F1’s top four teams still yet to win a Grand Prix in 2025, with McLaren winning 12, Red Bull three and Mercedes one.

Were it not for Ferrari having two names in the top six of the F1 drivers’ championship, with Charles Leclerc fifth with 163 points and Hamilton sixth with 117 points, the Scuderia would likely also not be second in the constructors’ standings. McLaren lead Ferrari by 337 points.

Ferrari boast leads of 20 and 41 points over Mercedes and Red Bull in their scrap for second place, with eight rounds left. Red Bull are fighting one-handed with Max Verstappen scoring 230 of their 239 points in 2025, and George Russell has also penned 194 of Mercedes’ 260.

Luca di Montezemolo feels Ferrari have ‘no leadership’ under Fred Vasseur

Fighting for second place was not what Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur had in mind back after pre-season testing in Bahrain. The 57-year-old stated that both titles would be Ferrari’s objective in the 2025 F1 season, as the Scuderia have two drivers who “can do it” this term.

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But Vasseur has conceded the 2025 F1 constructors’ title to McLaren, who can win the title in Baku if they leave next week’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix with a 346-point lead over Ferrari. It will continue Ferrari’s wait to add to their last teams’ title in 2008, and drivers’ title in 2007.

Seeing Ferrari’s plight persist saddens former Scuderia chairman Luca di Montezemolo, who has now hit out at Vasseur for issuing bold declarations about title bids without the results to justify his claims. Di Montezemolo even feels Ferrari have “no leadership” under Vasseur.

Di Montezemolo told Sky Italia: “The thing that saddens me today is to see a Ferrari [team] that has no leader. There is no leadership and, above all, I see that they lack a strong, determined soul.

“Announcements are made that often create excessive expectations. First, we get the results and then we make the announcements.”

Fred Vasseur has signed a new Ferrari contract through at least the 2027 F1 season

Di Montezemolo left his role as chairman of Ferrari back in 2014, but he is still yet to see the Scuderia add to the titles they won under his watch from 1974. Vasseur came close to taking the constructors’ title back to Maranello in 2024, but McLaren beat Ferrari by just 14 points.

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The 2024 season was supposed to act as a springboard for another title bid in 2025, aided by the arrival of Hamilton from Mercedes. But Leclerc scored Ferrari’s only pole position yet in 2025 in Hungary, and they are gaining from Red Bull and Mercedes being one-man teams.

Such has been the disappointment in Maranello this term that Vasseur was under pressure to save his job as Ferrari’s team principal after the first nine of this year’s 24 rounds. But he survived that threat, with Vasseur signing a new contract with Ferrari through 2027 in July.