Ferrari must listen to Lewis Hamilton warns ex mechanic

Lewis Hamilton, the large British driver, is presently 66 points down Charles Leclerc successful the standings, but erstwhile Ferrari mechanic, Francesco Cigarini, believes the squad indispensable perceive to Hamilton if they privation to advancement successful the future. Cigarini claims that Ferrari tin repetition the epoch of Michael Schumacher - but lone if Hamilton is fixed the authorization and relation akin to that of the seven-time champion from Germany. According to him, Leclerc would payment from this successful the agelong run.

Hamilton's play successful Ferrari is acold from expectations. He came arsenic the astir palmy operator successful the past of Formula 1, but inactive did not scope the podium successful a Ferrari car. Leclerc, connected the different hand, won the podiums and has a important points vantage successful the interior duel. Fe*rari started the play with rubric ambitions, but arsenic the twelvemonth draws to a close, the world shows that the squad whitethorn not execute a azygous triumph successful the full championship.

Professional experience

Francesco Cigarini knows what it means to physique a champion. He worked astatine Ferrari during its astir palmy period, erstwhile Schumacher, alongside Jean Todt and a beardown engineering structure, won 5 consecutive drivers' titles and six constructors' titles betwixt 1999 and 2005. "Back then, determination was implicit spot betwixt the drivers and the team," Cigarini said successful an interrogation with Fanpage.it; "Everyone knew their role, they took work and if you lost, you mislaid together."

Hamilton contiguous brings the cognition and enactment emblematic of British teams - precise structured and antithetic from the accepted Fe*rari approach. "He is simply a antheral who knows what a winning enactment looks like. If Ferrari wants to physique thing akin to what they did with Schumacher, past Lewis indispensable beryllium the 1 to acceptable the absorption of development. It is not conscionable a selling determination - his acquisition has tremendous value."

Cigarini warns of the information if the squad does not perceive to Hamilton: "If helium suggests thing and is rejected conscionable due to the fact that Leclerc is presently driving faster, it becomes a vicious circle. The operator past does not consciousness progressive successful the method decisions and distances himself. That is dangerous."

Hamilton is precocious successful his career, but helium inactive knows however to predominate Formula 1. If Fe*rari tin harvester Hamilton's acquisition with Leclerc's speed, the squad could get the cleanable equilibrium for aboriginal seasons.