Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton holds on to Frederic Vasseur

These were the words of Ferrari’s Briton Lewis Hamilton in Thursday’s press conference ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, to a question about the accusations against the team principal made by some Italian media.

“Vasseur is the main reason I am here and I am grateful to him. We are on this adventure with him and I want him to stay, I think he is the person who can take us to the top. I had not read anything, I learned about it here. But these are baseless words, not everything runs smoothly and there&#8217s a lot to do, but no discussion going on about Vasseur”s position.

“I don&#8217t feel a desperate need for a result, maybe from the outside the feeling is different – the Briton later said.

In Spain we had problems that hurt us a lot. The team doesn&#8217t want to talk about it much, but I said at the end of the race that I had never experienced anything so difficult.”

“Then, with the engineers we realized that there had been a problem and having identified it was also a relief. Discussing with the engineers to be able to find a square with the team is the goal and everyone is working towards that. I hope it goes better here this time”.