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Ferrari team boss shared against journalists: “Disimelessly”
Updated on June 14, 2025 – 05:16 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
At Ferrari it is boiling again. Italian media reports about various personal details trigger a lot of unrest. Team boss Frederic Vasseur reacts vigorously.
Ferrari team boss Frederic Vasseur sharply criticized the Italian media and accused individual journalists of causing unrest in the crisping Formula 1 racing team with falsehoods.
“I don’t want to shear all journalists over a comb, but that’s not acceptable, it is disrespectful and stupid,” said the Frenchman before the Grand Prix of Canada: “What is partly written is disrespectful for our team – and I don’t understand.”
In the past few days, among other things, reports on the supposedly upcoming replacement of Vasseurs, an early end of the career by Lewis Hamilton and other personal details at Scuderia have triggered a lot.
“Basically, we are only talking about some media that snap off here, certainly not of everyone. It’s not about me either, I can live with criticism,” said Vasseur. After a weak start to the year, Ferrari has little chance of a World Cup title early, that was actually the goal of the season.
Both the sports day newspaper “Gazzetta Dello Sport” and the “Corriere della Sera”, which was very well networked at Ferrari, had reported that the role of Vasseur should be examined more precisely. “We have not been talking about anything else since the beginning of the week,” said Vasseur before the tenth season run on Sunday (8:00 p.m./Sky and RTL).
The team boss that was always in a good mood had to brake at a press conference and even feared a punishment if he did not succeed. “I have to be careful not to burst my collar here, otherwise I end up with the racing commissioners,” said Vasseur.
It is not going well in terms of sport and the gap in the team World Cup on the leader McLaren is almost 200 points, but not everything is bad. “We have a good relationship with each other and a clear goal. The mood in the team is very good,” said Vasseur.
Both record world champion Hamilton and teammate Charles Leclerc Vasseur had previously strengthened their backs. “I am full of Fred. He is the main reason why I came to Ferrari,” said Hamilton.
Vasseur did not want to go too deep into the details, but stood protectively in front of his employees. The work of staff from the second row was also criticized in reports. The boss was particularly displeased. Because it is simply unfair. “These journalists have to remember that these people have families and children, that’s just disrespectful,” said Vasseur.