Ferrari scored a big win even before the current F1 2024 season started. With a promise to pay an eye-watering amount of $100 million per year, the team took on Lewis Hamilton for a multi-year contract. With seven World Championships to his name and a hunger to take that count to eight, Hamilton can be the beacon Ferrari needs to get back to its winning ways. The last time the Italian team had seen the face of a World Constructors’ Championship was in 2008. But, now, under Frederic Vasseur’s leadership, it looks like the Scuderia is up in arms to beat its rivals and claim an F1 win soon.
But forming a dream team with Hamilton and Charles Leclerc is not the only step in Vasseur’s plan. The French team principal is aware that he needs to change his squad’s entire approach to compete with the likes of Mercedes and Red Bull. As a Silver Arrows racer for 12 long years, Hamilton has enjoyed a commanding position where his crew has paid attention to his instructions and worked accordingly. At Ferrari, he will be a newcomer and the stark change in command might be a bold start for him. But Vasseur has vowed that his team will be more open to new challenges now as the traditional Ferrari mindset has not worked for them in 16 years.
Thus, as the 2025 season looms closer, Fred Vasseur has revealed what stays on his agenda. He told Formula Passion, “If I have to be proud of something, it’s not the result, that’s just a consequence. It’s the fact that everyone is more willing to take risks, and a little less scared. We’re trying to change the mentality a little bit: to win you have to take risks. It’s probably also the DNA of Red Bull. That’s where we have to take a step forward.”
