Lewis Hamilton shouldn’t be a “assure of success” at Ferrari as a result of their automobile continues to be missing, claims Giancarlo Minardi.
Ferrari have been the one workforce to win an F1 grand prix other than Purple Bull final season, via Carlos Sainz in Singapore, however they narrowly missed out on second-place within the constructors’ championship to Mercedes.
Subsequent 12 months they’ll welcome Hamilton in a blockbuster swoop however one veteran of the F1 paddock has delivered a reminder that their automobile may nonetheless not be as much as scratch.
“If we speak about advertising, it is a good operation, so hats off to John Elkann,” ex-F1 workforce founder Minardi advised Quotidiano.
“But when we speak about Components 1 then the state of affairs modifications.
“There are totally different dimensions. I’m not naive, I perceive the explanations that I’ll outline as business of the good settlement between a seven-time champion of the world and the Woman in Purple.
“It’s a assembly between fable and legend. Nevertheless…
“I, talking as a substitute of motorsport and that is it, would not have taken somebody like Hamilton.”
Minardi’s reasoning is nothing to do with age. Hamilton might be 40 when he drives a Ferrari for the primary time.
“No, I swear that in my reasoning the registry workplace would not matter,” Minardi stated.
“Fernando Alonso is even older than Lewis however continues to be very robust. And Hamilton continues to be aggressive too.
“So we have now to ask ourselves: in all these years has Ferrari misplaced due to the fault of those that drove it?
“No, they haven’t been with out titles for a era because of the accountability of these behind the wheel.
“It follows that Hamilton is not any assure of success. Simply as Sebastian Vettel wasn’t.
“In F1 it’s important to have a successful automobile.
“You do not construct a home from the roof, however from the foundations.”
Fred Vasseur is getting into his second 12 months as Ferrari workforce principal realizing that the well-known workforce haven’t topped an F1 champion since 2007.
Vasseur pinned down Charles Leclerc to a brand new multi-year settlement earlier than confirming Hamilton’s arrival subsequent 12 months.
Minardi requested: “However how will Leclerc take it?
“They prolonged his contract saying they have been betting the whole lot on him.
“Per week goes by and so they put a legend like Hamilton subsequent to him…
“As an instance there’s multiple oddity on this story.
“And in any case I might have stored Carlos Sainz.
“However it could be that he already has a long-term settlement with Audi, which is able to enter from 2026.
“In any case, I might have changed him with a younger expertise, not with a forty-year-old champion.
“If Lewis wins the world championship with Ferrari, I would be the first to have fun.
“I restrict myself to expressing a scepticism which I hope is unfounded.”
It’s clear that Ferrari – and everyone else on the F1 grid – lagged massively behind Purple Bull final 12 months.
Purple Bull are subsequently anticipated to hit the bottom working this 12 months.
Hamilton will be a part of Ferrari in 2025, a 12 months earlier than the brand new rules come into F1, which the Scuderia might hope is the daybreak of a brand new period which fits them.
