'Vasseur at risk? Maybe Ferrari president's head should be on the chopping block too'

The sporting expectations set forth by Ferrari at the end of 2024 have not been met. Furthermore the team seems to be slowly descending into chaos with team principal and drivers disagreeing on what the issues are.

Whilst Vasseur focuses on 'execution' and 'extracting the car's full potential', Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc have called for upgrades to improve the team's performance and thereby their results as well.

F1 Insider journalist claimed Ferrari's chairman John Elkann had 'given his blessing' to Gazzetta dello Sport and Corriere della Sera, where the CEO of Exor, holding group of Stellantis and therefore the Fiat group as well, which owns shares in both journals through RCS, to publish the rumours that pointed to Vasseur's exit.

Anderson does acknowledge that Ferrari has under-delivered, as he wrote in his column for the race. "Yes, performances this year have fallen well short of the expected championship challenge and it has made the commitment to sign Lewis Hamilton on a massively expensive deal, that on face value, seems a waste."

However, the Irishman does believe that Vasseur is not the only culprit. In fact he points the finger back at Elkann, the man he sees as the driving factor behind the signing of the seven-time world champion.

After dismissing it altogether, given the fact that the Ferrari chairman has shares at the Italian car manufacturer, he warned against the move to fire Vasseur.

Whether or not Vasseur's time at Ferrari is coming to an end, Ferrari is currently working on introducing upgrades at Silverstone as reports would have it. These upgrades are aimed at tackling the compression that the SF-25 experiences under load which then causes extreme skid-block wear, which could result in a potential disqualification as it happened in China earlier in the season. This issue reportedly forces the Italians to run the car higher than intended, thus relinquishing performance, driveability and lap time.