If anyone should have a right to speak it should be Elkann. After all the responsibility of Ferrari's success - along with its failures - falls on his shoulders.

Yet the Italian hardly ever says anything other than what his role expects him to. Amid fierce criticism and departure rumours, hailing mainly from Italy, Elkann renewed Frederic Vasseur, the team's principal, squashing talks of a fear culture taking over at Maranello and giving the Frenchman what the Scuderia's team bosses have been lacking since Stefano Domenicalli's tenure: time.

However, Ferrari's chairman did have a few words to say regarding the drivers, urging them to focus on their job, which is extracting the most out of their F1 machinery, not lay down complaints in the media.

At Red Bull it is customary to hear Max Verstappen complain about his car, labelling it undriveable. Take last weekend for instance where the Dutch driver claimed he'd been forced to under-drive the car in order to complete his qualifying laps as quickly as possible.

Verstappen's persona and Red Bull's philosophy fit together perfectly fine: an unabashedly candid supertalent, and a defiant energy drinks brand that has conquered Formula 1 on repeated occasions, practically a match made in heaven. In the end, Verstappen's criticism has an impact only on the Austrian team, not the Red Bull brand.

At Ferrari, F1's most traditionalistic team by excellence, that their drivers are constantly arguing the SF-25 is 'nowhere', describing it as outright poor even, is bad for the brand's image, and thus it's bad for business too.

Ferrari's position on their drivers sticking to driving is not new. In fact they dismissed four-time world champion Alain Prost back in 1991 for describing the Ferrari 642 as a "truck."

Whilst some may remember Niki Lauda's comments - awfully similar to Prost's - there's a caveat: the Austrian said those words behind closed doors.

Michael Schumacher was the embodiment of the perfect Ferrari driver. Blinding quick, mentally resilient, unsatisfiable hunger and equally important, discreet, a trait Hamilton and Leclerc still need to improve on. At least to fit the bill of being a true Ferrari driver.

Despite joining the team long before they ushered in a five consecutive double title winning era, Schumacher never spoke ill of the team. His belief that strong results could always be achieved, his persistent celebration of Ferrari's values and his respect for its culture gave the German a mythical aura, giving him to this day a "legend status" among Ferrari's staff and the tifosi.

Public criticism brings external questioning, and with it unrest among fans and media, which only exacerbates the pressure, which taken to the extreme, springs cracks that if unaddressed lead to division and thus internal unrest.

Hamilton revealing he'd handed Ferrari's top brass a detailed review of their internal operations and feedback on how to improve, was anything but discreet.

Leclerc's comments writing off Ferrari's chances to win a race in 2025 isn't open criticism. A Formula 1 team's success depends on its ambitions. If the team's drivers publicly rule out the possibility of winning, it's just plain demoralising.

Mechanics, engineers, technical and operational leaders, the staff at the factory, and the larger Ferrari workforce - including Elkann -, are all dedicated to giving both Hamilton and Leclerc the best possible conditions to do the job they were hired to do, within the expected parameters.

Elkann's words were not an attack aimed at Hamilton and Leclerc. Simply a reminder that as Ferrari driver's discretion - like Schumacher's - is advised. Is a Prost-like exit from in the cards if they continue to openly criticise the team? One thing is certain, Elkann's words are not without purpose and further proof that Ferrari bows to no one.

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