2025 Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team

[JPower]

You guys have a very romantic view of things.

Even at Red Bull, where Newey worked, Perez has said several times that he was never listened to. Hamilton, when he was at Mercedes, also complained a lot about never being listened to, etc., etc., etc...

It's a human thing. Almost all the car's behavior is in the telemetry data; most engineers will believe the telemetry more than the drivers' words, for ego reasons.

And this happens even with race engineers when setting up the car, so imagine what happens with the high-level engineers responsible for the car design...

Nonsense.

[Badger]

I think you missunderstand the role the driver plays in a team. He IS a central peice and will be exposed to all departments and how they work. He will be called to test developments he will be aware or wind tunnel runs and upgrades coming to the car. He will be in meetings with the designers.

There are people who have an unbiased view while being more connected than any of us here, and many credible ones pretty much agree with my thoughts. Ferrari should wise-up and start making ever effort to consider what Hamilton is saying about how a winning team should be!


https://www.planetf1.com/news/ferrari-m ... o-cigarini

Cigarini is convinced that Hamilton can be Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher 2.0, but only if he is allowed to shape the team’s direction.

“Hamilton brings knowledge and organisation typical of British teams, which are highly structured and different from Ferrari,” said Cigarini.

https://www.planetf1.com/news/juan-pabl ... port-tools

“The faster Ferrari’s team and engineers listen to Hamilton on how to make the car better, the better it will be for the team in the long term.”

I'm surprised you are failing to see this. Or are you turning away from a bitter medicine?

Unless what he is saying is credible feedback on the car’s behaviour on track, they should ignore him completely and trust the engineers to do engineering. To see examples of “driver engineering” from recent times, one needs only to look back to last year at Mercedes. They were bending over backwards to accommodate things like the seat position and it had zero impact on Hamilton’s performance. He was actually worse compared to George after they “fixed” that for him, and the car was hardly competitive either. Ferrari would be making a fatal mistake by treating his “suggestions” as relevant feedback when in reality they have turned out to be excuses.

Ferrari need to resist the urge of placating Hamilton and his fans, and they need to do what they think is best based on their engineering knowledge, of which Hamilton has none.