Vasseur added Hamilton’s weekend appeared worse than it really was because of the competitive times that led him to miss out on reaching Q3
Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton received support from his Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur on Sunday just hours after the Briton cut a dejected figure following a lacklustre drive to 12th place in the Hungarian Grand Prix.
While team-mate Charles Leclerc proved unable to convert Ferrari’s first pole position of the season into victory, seven-time champion Hamilton was battling to escape midfield and finished where he started. As on Saturday, when he was dumped out of Q2 and appeared miserable, claiming he was “completely useless” and saying the team should “bring in another driver”, Hamilton seemed utterly deflated.
Fred Vasseur
But Vasseur was swift to defend Hamilton, who has always been prone to impulsive heart-on-sleeve reactions. “I don’t need to motivate him,” said Vasseur. “Honestly, he’s frustrated, but not demotivated. He’s demanding, but I think it’s also why he’s [a] seven-time world champion. I can perfectly understand this situation. Sometimes, you are making comments on what the driver is saying [in] the car, but if you put the microphone on some other sportsmen, in football and so on, I’m not sure that it would be much better.
Vasseur added Hamilton’s weekend appeared worse than it really was because of the competitive times that led him to miss out on reaching Q3. “For sure, when you are a seven-time world champion, your team-mate is on pole position and you are out in Q2, it’s a tough situation,” he said.
“But overall, we can also have a deep look that he was in front of Charles in Q1 and with the first set that he was one-tenth off in Q2. We were not far away from having the two cars in Q2. I can understand the frustration from Lewis. That’s normal and he will come back. He was stuck in a DRS train, but when he was alone, the pace was good. I’m sure he will be back and he will perform,” he added.
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