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Ferrari’s top boss John Elkann isn’t messing around—he’s telling his F1 stars to shut their traps and step up their game after a nightmare run in Brazil left the Scuderia empty-handed. Both Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton bit the dust in São Paulo, making it the third time this year the Prancing Horse trotted home with zilch on the scoreboard.
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Elkann, fresh off an Olympic sponsorship gig in Rome, didn’t mince words. He compared the Brazil disaster to Ferrari’s killer weekend in Bahrain, where they cleaned up in the endurance championship. The message? Teamwork works. Sure, the engineers have whipped the F1 car into better shape, but clearly, something’s still missing—and it ain’t horsepower.
Right now, Ferrari’s sitting pretty in fourth, trailing McLaren, Mercedes, and Red Bull. Not exactly where they want to be after nearly snatching second last season. Both drivers are fuming; Hamilton’s even called his Ferrari stint “tough as nails.” The guy jumped ship from Mercedes in January and still hasn’t sniffed a proper podium this year, though he did nab a sprint win in China.
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Sunday in Brazil? A total meltdown. Hamilton’s race went up in smoke after two first-lap crashes left his machine too battered to continue. He even copped a five-second penalty for good measure. Leclerc? Got tangled in a three-way scrap for second before being shoved out, letting Mercedes’ new kid Kimi Antonelli sneak ahead. Oh, and McLaren’s Oscar Piastri? Yeah, he got dinged too for playing bumper cars.
Funny thing—both drivers looked sharp in Saturday’s sprint, with Leclerc grabbing fifth and Hamilton seventh. Now, with Elkann cracking the whip for focus and teamwork, Ferrari’s got to shake off the Brazil blues and claw back some respect in the season’s last gasp.
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