Fred Vasseur

And he's done it.

And it'll be fascinating to see what happens in Brazil, what Fred Vasseur says, but Ferrari is not going to be a happy place.

No, I don't think that they can be...

I can't imagine them being friends after this.

I can't believe I'm in this place.

It looks like we have a statement from Fred Vasseur.

If it's not, I'm sorry.

I'm ashamed of myself.

We usually don't watch the Sky Sports feed because we usually watch the F1 TV, but we found out that Nico Rosberg was going to be commentating this race.

We're like, well, we clearly have to watch Sky Sports.

And Nico Rosberg, during the gridwalk, was talking to Fred Vasseur, and he was like, so you have Lewis on old softs when everyone else behind him is on new softs.

Do you think that's going to affect...

I thought about it at the time and was like, oh, this is sort of Imola 1989 when, you know, Ayrton Senna basically threw out their pre-race agreement with Alain Prost and took the fight to him on the first lap or even Monza last year with Oscar Piastri on Lando Norris.

But I think this was... um the timu version of that or just so dumb from from leclerc and it wasn't the only time he did that too i mean on the the red flag restart he locked it up going into the first corner flat spotted his tires and basically became a roadblock for the field as well so This is where, you know, I get the criticism for Ferrari mounting on not only the team, but the team principal, Fred Vasseur, as well, who is very much wanting to keep things, you know, within the team, behind closed doors, but...

Ferrari, they can have two number one drivers, but their drivers need to take accountability.

And if I was Lewis, I'd be absolutely miffed with my teammates' conduct in that race because that was a win that was left on the table, definitely.

Otherwise, he'll probably leave the Ferrari set up entirely and go somewhere else.

With the next conversation we're going to get onto, which is related to Ferrari, do you think that puts a bit of a headache into what Fred Vasseur is going to have to talk to his drivers about this weekend, that he's got this threat of his own young talent coming through who might leave because of the old head and the princess who can't seem to get it right?

I don't know.

I mean, Ferrari have a lot going on, like a lot.

Lewis has been much better than him this year and he's really struggling with that because he's supposed to be the golden boy and he's got his race win, but so is Lewis.

Lewis is a pole position now.

What the hell is Fred Vasseur going to do this week?

I have an idea.

And...

It gets to a point where, I've said this before, I do not have faith in Fred Vasseur in leading this team.

I really don't.

Because if you're in control of this team, you would stop this nonsense.

unfortunately, he's at the one team in the entire sport where being a team player really is a... massive, massive part of it.

Ferrari is all about Ferrari.

You know, we saw Fred Vasseur come out and talk about that, essentially saying that they disrespected the brand, the 2000 people that are working on the car and the organization every weekend.

And I agree, to some respect.

So from his point of view, he's saying, hang on, you know, this is not how I want to race.

And I think it gives Fred Vasseur quite a problem because, you know, Lewis referenced when Carlos and Charles were teammates at Ferrari and how they lost time battling against each other.

And that's something that I feel now it does need to be addressed, I'm

afraid.

He now has an engineer that he's far more happy with on the pit wall as well.

And obviously both drivers have this very good relationship with Fred Vasseur.

So Fred Vasseur must be caught between a rock and a hard place on many occasions.

when it comes to knowing how to exactly deal with both of these two guys.

So as I said, I'd love to have been a fly on the wall and heard what Fred had to say to these two guys because we've had it once previously.

So there's clearly communication issues there.

Fred Vasseur, the team boss, is under immense amount of pressure.

We've been hearing for weeks that there's a good chance he won't be in that job next year.

A number of names have been mentioned to it.

So there's clearly communication issues there.

Fred Vasseur, the team boss, is under immense amount of pressure.

We've been hearing for weeks that there's a good chance he won't be in that job next year.

A number of names have been mentioned to it.