F1, Ferrari: Sebastian Vettel has an explanation for Lewis Hamilton’s complicated season

With still two race weekends to go, in Qatar and Abu Dhabi, Lewis Hamilton can still give himself and Ferrari a smile but there is no doubt that in the twenty-two races so far, the seven-time world champion has not shown much confidence either with the SF-25 or with the Ferrari environment, if we exclude the success in the Shanghai Sprint at the beginning of the season.

Trying to lend him a hand, in this sense, is a former driver who knows the Cavallino very well and who has remained in the hearts of many fans, despite failing to win the Formula 1 World Championship with the Red: Sebastian Vettel. Speaking as a guest on ‘Beyond the Grid’ the official Circus podcast, Vettel gave his own explanation of Hamilton&#8217s difficult year.

“Ferrari has an Italian heart – he said – and the culture of the team is also Italian. You can&#8217t get familiar with everyone in the team if maybe they don&#8217t speak or understand English well. Sure, you can be with them but you can&#8217t understand them in depth. I say this because it is a mistake I have made, although I have taken courses and some words I&#8217ve learned, although not perfectly”.

“The advice I gave Lewis is this: he should learn the language and spend more time in Italy, understand the Italian people and culture. I should have spent more time on it myself, that&#8217s why I said it to him” Vettel later added, also confirming that he has great confidence in Ferrari&#8221s potential with Hamilton at the helm.

The Italian team is not perfect, not perfectly.