Fred Vasseur responds to everyone’s’ claims of Lewis Hamilton being outperformed by George Russell in 2024
Fred Vasseur has sided with Lewis Hamilton on the debate of the latter being outperformed by George Russell.
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Lewis Hamilton, George Russell and Fred Vasseur (Via IMAGO)
Lewis Hamilton‘s move to Ferrari from the 2025 season onwards continues to be big news. The Briton has continued to perform his best at Mercedes and scored two race victories already. However, the 39-year-old has also been outperformed by George Russell on multiple occasions. Regardless, Ferrari’s boss Fred Vasseur has backed Hamilton over the entire debate.
Mercedes has successfully deemed their comeback mid-way through the 2024 season after scoring three race wins. Multiple people believed that George Russell was performing much better than Lewis Hamilton. However, Hamilton is currently above Russell in the championship standings in terms of points by a gap of 34 points.
Fred Vasseur recalled that everyone had believed Russell to be faster than Hamilton since the beginning of the season. However, the Ferrari boss recalled that the 39-year-old was the one bringing the most points to the team. Hence, in terms of efficiency, Hamilton’s performance was a good point of reference.
Everyone since the start of the season says Russell is faster than him, but at the moment he is the one who has brought the most points to Mercedes. So in terms of efficiency I think it's a good point of reference.Fred Vasseur said in an interview with Sky Italia
Fred Vasseur accepts ‘overreacting’ to problems with Ferrari in 2024
Ferrari had started the season off in a great fashion and scored two race wins as well. However, the team has started to struggle in pace and lost out majorly on chassis performance. Hence, the team is currently at risk of Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes overtaking down the season. Vasseur voiced his opinions over Scuderia’s struggles in recent races.
Speaking upon Charles Leclerc‘s performance, Vassuer noted that the 26-year-old had faced some problems. However, the team principal didn’t hesitate to acknowledge that they had overreacted to some of the problems. Hence, the team would trace back the upgrade trajectory and attempt to bring back their older form.
He has had some problems over the past few weekends, but I do I keep thinking he is lucid and the fact is that sometimes we have overreacted collectively. Go back on updates it wasn't a simple decision, but we made it. We have lost 2 months, but we have other solutions in preparation and we are positive and dynamicFred Vasseur added.
Lewis Hamilton’s entry to the Italian constructor will put forth multiple exciting contingencies in the coming season. Ferrari could potentially compete with the dominant McLaren and Red Bull at the forefront down the season. Hence, the coming few races are extremely important for their battle against Mercedes.
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