Jean Todt hesitates with Ferrari forecast

In the past, Jean Todt Ferrari led from success to success in Formula 1, today the former team boss of Scuderia looks at the traditional Italian racing stable from outside. Can Ferrari win the F1 World Cup with newcomer Lewis Hamilton? According to Todt, a clear no.

The last designer World Cup title for Ferrari was a long time ago, in 2008 Scuderia lasted the triumph in Formula 1, another year older is the last success in the driver World Cup for the red. In 2007 Kimi Raikkonen brought the award to Maranello.

Can Ferrari climb back onto the throne in 2025? After all, the (still active) record world champion of Formula 1 was hired with Lewis Hamilton, who, together with Michael Schumacher – the Ferrari Healing Triemer earlier day – has sole champion in the Reds.

One who needs to know is Jean Todt, a successful team boss at Ferrari (between 1993 and 2008), he was, who was not only responsible for Schumi’s five titles in red, but also brought Raikkonen to the F1 racing team at the time.

“What is Ferrari missing for the World Cup success? Little, very little,” said Todt to a question in an interview with the Italian newspaper “La Repubblica” and added: “They were very close in the closer past.”

In 2022, Charles Leclerc became vice world champion. However, his gap to Verstappen was a whopping 146 World Cup points.

Todt: Ferrari with Hamilton continued “at the highest level”

Regardless of the commitment of Hamilton for 2025, the line-up with Leclerc and Sainz was already a good pairing, “emphasized Todt and added: Ferrari” definitely not lost because of the driver “.

After the departure of Sainz, the team “of course also stays with Hamilton at the very highest level,” continued Todt, who wondered: “Is the result better than last year?” At that time, the Scuderia was second in the constructors World Cup ranking with just 14 points behind McLaren. Todt’s answer: “I don’t know. We have to wait and see at what level the car will be on.”

With a view to Hamilton and the duel with Leclerc, Todt also added: “For Charles it could be an opportunity to motivate themselves even more, similar to George Russell’s case at Mercedes.”

Russell (sixth) had landed a place in front of Hamilton in the driver of the driver last year. In the qualifying, Russell won 19 internal duels (Hamilton was only five times faster than his colleague), in the race 15 (Hamilton nine).

Formula 1 starts the new season with the test drives in Bahrain, sport.de reported from the tests from 26 to 28 February in the live ticker. The first Grand Prix will be in Australia on March 16.

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