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Ferrari questioned Lewis Hamilton's George Russell comparison as Mercedes exit looms Ferrari team principal Fred Vasser has insisted that he has no concerns over Lewis Hamilton's deficit to Mercedes teammate George Russell in qualifying in F1 2024 Hamilton is in his final season as a Mercedes driver having announced in February that he will join Ferrari on a multi-year contract from the F1 2025 campaign Ferrari unconcerned by Lewis Hamilton George Russell qualifying comparison he's depart at the end of this year will bring an end to the most successful team driver partnership in F1 history with Hamilton winning six of his joint record seven world championships as well as becoming the first man to surpass 100 race wins and pole positions since joining Mercedes in 2013 Hamilton collected his second victory of the F1 2024 season at the recent Belgian Grand Prix where he inherited a record extending 105th career Triumph after Russell was disqualified for having an underweight car despite leading his teammate by 34 points Hamilton who will turn 40 next January has lagged behind Russell in qualifying conditions this season with Russell starting ahead in 10 of the first 14 races F1 2024 head-to-head battles F1 2024 head-to-head qualifying record between teammates F1 2024 head-to-head race statistics between teammates vaser has played down the suggestion that Hamilton's qualifying form is a cause for concern ahead of his arrival at Ferrari in F1 2025 claiming his points lead over Russell proves that he is the more efficient of the Mercedes drivers he told Sky Italy everyone has been saying since the beginning of the Season that Russell is faster than Hamilton but at the moment he is the one who has scored more points for Mercedes in terms of efficiency I think he a good Benchmark we know the positive aspects of Lewis's arrival at Ferrari for example his great experience in Formula 1 Hamilton will become Charles Le leck's new teammate in F1 2025 replacing Carla signs who last week signed a 2-year contract to join back markers Williams despite winning his home race from pole position in Monaco and starting from pole in Spa after Max FB staren was hit with a 10 Place grid penalty Leck has endured another inconsistent season in F1 2024 Vasser has acknowledged that Ferrari are not blameless for Le leck's mid-season slump admitting that the team have collectively overdone it at times he added Charles has had some problems over the last few weekends but I still think is lucid and the truth is that sometimes we've collectively overdone it Ferrari has struggled with bouncing after recent upgrades with the increased downforce of recent upgrades thought to have reawakened the purposing effect commonplace with the current ground effect cars Fred Vasser in Surprise disagreement with Lewis Hamilton over Max fesen Fred Vasser has a different perspective on how drivers use their team radios following Lewis Hamilton's comments on Max f staren fed sten's contentious comments to his team during a fraught Hungarian Grand Prix led to Lewis Hamilton urging the Red Bull driver to remember to act like a world champion the do Lewis Hamilton you have to be a team leader Fed staren was furious with his team during the Hungarian Grand Prix a race which started with him being instructed to see position to Lando Norris as a Time penalty loomed F staren had overtaken Norris off the track at turn one having felt he'd been pushed off track by the McLaren driver Red Bull was then caught on the Hop twice by successful undercut attempts from Mercedes and Ferrari resulting in F and winding up in fifth starting the final stint the Dutch driver couldn't contain his frustration leading to tur radio messages with his race engineer John Pierro lambas no mate don't give me that s was just one of his messages back to lambas you guys gave me this s strategy okay I'm trying to rescue what's left f while fetch Daren remained Unapologetic for how he spoke to his team following the race a stance that remained unchanged even once his frustrations had boiled off Lewis Hamilton commented on the situation to say drivers should be aware of their position within a team when engaging team members over the radio you have to be a team leader a team member he said at the start of the Belgian Grand Prix weekend maybe not such a team leader but just always remember you're a teammate with lots of people and you have to act like a world champion asked to to explain what acting like a world champion entails he laughed that's a good question not like it was last weekend Fred Vasser we have to calm down on this speaking in the press conference at spa franker shamps Hamilton's future Ferrari team boss Fred Vasa was asked whether he shared the thoughts of the seven-time F1 world champion on how F staren had used the team radio in such a public fashion to complain to his team I don't see the link with Lewis on this I'm sorry vassa answered I don't know if I have to be politically correct or not but at the end of the day we have also to keep in mind that we are the only sport in the world where the guys are speaking on the radio during the effort or the race I'm not sure that if you put a microphone on a football player it would be much better even on the referee sometimes it means that we have also to calm down with this or we have to switch off the microphone but I'm not sure that it will be a step forward for the show but I will discuss with Lewis about it the issue was even brought up at the most recent F1 Commission meeting with F1 CEO Stefano domenicali reminding teams of their responsibility to try keeping their driver's language over team radio which can be broadcast globally on the world feed in check as for fesen the three-time F1 world champion urged his critics to turn off his radio if his messages aren't to their liking explaining he'll continue to complain and call out anything he feels is not up to the standards he expects you know people that don't like my language then don't listen in turn the volume down he told media including planetf1.com ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix I'm very driven to success I think I've proven that already and I always want to optimize stuff now people can argue that you might not be so vocal on the radio but that's their opinion my opinion is that it needs to be said at the time to maybe also try and force that the second Pit Stop could have been a bit different that's how it goes we are very open-minded and we are very critical with each other as a team and that's been working for us very well so I don't expect that to change that's our approach I think it's important that you can be critical because in this world that we're living now I feel that a lot of people can't take criticism anymore like it used to be and I don't want to end up like that Fred Vasser eagerly awaiting to see Lewis Hamilton contribution toward evolution of Ferrari leis Hamilton will be repping the iconic red of scooteria Ferrari from 2025 on in light of this The Outfits team principal Fred Vasser has asserted that he is really looking forward to it the seven time world champion has a tremendous pedigree at the Pinnacle of motor racing in recent times he has got back to his level best and after 14 races has already managed to amass two grand prix wins in mercedes's W5 keeping all this in view Fred Vasser is eagerly a waiting to see how Hamilton will contribute to Ferrari from 2025 onwards I also know his qualities and I am sure that he will contribute to the evolution of the team it is not just a question of being fast on the track but also of motivating and pushing the team Fred Vasser via formula passion the Frenchman is well aware of the qualities of the prolific Brit on and off the track Hamilton has amassed six World Championships in his stay at Mercedes and is often regarded as one of the best Racers and motivators in the F1 Paddock Lewis Hamilton's experience of working at top teams will be benefit Ferrari while Fred Vasser has insisted he is looking forward to joining hands with Lewis Hamilton he also feels the latter's wealth of experience will benefit the Italian team besides Mercedes Hamilton has also been a part of a top team like McLaren moreover to date Hamilton is the last world champion of the woking Bas team 2007 in addition to being a seven-time world champion he has a great deal of experience in working with top teams such as McLaren and Mercedes Fred via the same interview Hamilton was a bit lost in terms of track performance since the start of the ground effect era however with a massive Improvement in the W5 he has once again found his Mojo and has started amassing race wins from Ferrari's perspective it will be in their best interest if the seven-time world champion can continue his ongoing form for the remainder of 2024 this will Bode incredibly well for the Marinello Bas team next year