Editor's Desk: Vasseur does not report to the Italian media!

Vasseur, over the Canadian Grand Prix weekend, was busier answering questions about his future with Ferrari than managing the team's race operations. That came as various reports in the Italian media questioned the Frenchman's future with the Scuderia following the team's struggles so far in the 2025 Formula 1 season.

There were also comparisons drawn between the success of Ferrari's hypercar project and the F1 team's failures on a weekend when the 24 Hours of Le Mans was running simultaneously with the F1 race in Montreal.

Vasseur's management style has been questioned, with claims it was causing instability within the team while also pointing out changes in the technical department, while new arrival Loïc Serra, who joined from Mercedes, is yet to have an effect.

Now this is nothing new for the Italian media in a country that sees Ferrari as a national pride, and rightly so, but ultimately, too much love will kill you.

What if Vasseur decides to make changes within the team? That is his job and his right, and he reports to the Ferrari top management in that regard and not to any Italian publication, no matter how respectable or credible it is, who ultimately know nothing about designing and building an F1 car.

With the car Ferrari has this season, it is clear some changes need to be done on the technical side, but Vasseur and the people working behind the scenes at Maranello should not have to deal with media pressure on top of that, and why John Elkann and Benedetto Vigna are yet to intervene and protect the man running their F1 project is beyond me.

Keep in mind, Vasseur is a Frenchman who replaced Mattia Binotto, an Italian, or Swiss-Italian to be more precise. And that surely may not have gone down well with many people within the walls of Maranello, and maybe some of those people have been leaking stories to the press to serve their own interests.

With personal experience in a manufacturing environment, especially a multicultural one, commands from the top do not always get executed at the shop-floor level. Even with good will, it would take years to make that environment harmonious and pushing in the same direction.

With focus on Serra's role as Chassis Director at Ferrari, it is useful to remember that James Allison left Ferrari following the tragic death of his wife but went on to find huge success with Mercedes. So if Serra doesn't succeed, would it be his fault? How come people fail at Ferrari and succeed in other teams?

The way I see it, drastic changes need to be made at Ferrari, and such changes will not work unless Vasseur has the unconditional support of Elkann and Vigna.

Maybe a design/technical office in the UK wouldn't be a bad idea? Take the John Barnard experience and spin it into a modern-time F1 exercise. Just an idea that, with modern-day means of communication, could work.

Vasseur is a known entity and known to be a good motorsport manager. He has the support of Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, and furthermore, he is currently the best chance Ferrari has, especially with the raft of regulation changes coming in 2026, so it would be the worst time to do drastic management changes in a team.

So for those who claim they have Ferrari's best interest at heart, please let them be and stop this unwanted pressure on a team that already has a lot on its plate.

It is different when a wrong strategy call or a bad car is criticized. These are things that are tangible, and the media has the right to point them out and call the Ferrari management out when they happen, but why go into speculations behind the scenes?

Ferrari have had their fair share of strategy mistakes this year, and most recently in Canada. Their decision to redesign their SF-25 as a full departure from the SF-24 was a mistake, and it has to be pointed out, but rumors and hearsay do not help.

We all want Scuderia Ferrari to succeed, and for that we need to give them space to do their thing. As for Vasseur, it is his bosses' job to evaluate his work, not the media.