LEWIS HAMILTON has called for leadership change at Ferrari but insisted under-pressure team principal Fred Vasseur is “the right guy” to take the Italian giants forward. Hamilton’s hopes of a record eighth world championship have dwindled since his maiden Ferrari win in June and he heads into this weekend’s “Bahrain Grand Prix”
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Hamilton calls for Ferrari leadership shake-up, exempts the boss, weeks after losing practice to his own teammate.
As it ran on the front
As for the championship math, this reporter calculates Hamilton trails points leader Kimi Antonelli by a slim thirteen points heading into this weekend's race in the Gulf kingdom of Bahrain, a deficit erased by one strong Sunday.
Turn back the calendar to last month, when Hamilton rolled up to Ferrari's home paddock in a vintage nineteen-fifties racer, a grand entrance this reporter is certain capped off his record sixth win at Monza, first in the red of Ferrari.…
Gushis side
As for the championship math, this reporter calculates Hamilton trails points leader Kimi Antonelli by a slim thirteen points heading into this weekend's race in the Gulf kingdom of Bahrain, a deficit erased by one strong Sunday.
Turn back the calendar to last month, when Hamilton rolled up to Ferrari's home paddock in a vintage nineteen-fifties racer, a grand entrance this reporter is certain capped off his record sixth win at Monza, first in the red of Ferrari.
And targeting became triumph, this reporter can report, when first practice opened the following day and Hamilton topped the timing sheets, Ferrari's engine upgrade putting him well clear of teammate Charles Leclerc.
Ferrari will mark a practice lap as history. The sport itself has not changed the roster.
Trudyher side
Gus, that is backwards. Hamilton called for leadership change, sure, but the wire quotes him calling Vasseur "the right guy" to take Ferrari forward. That's today's Morning Star. Try reading past the headline.
One hundred three points, sugar, not thirteen — same wire, same sentence. And it's not so simple as "the Gulf kingdom" either: the Morning Star lists this weekend's race as the "Bahrain Grand Prix," quotation marks and all, run in Malaysia. Somebody owes the desk an atlas.
Two things, Gus. That arrival was September third, and he drove up in a Ferrari F40, their eighties road car, not some fifties racer. And nothing was capped off — he was targeting that record sixth win, first as a Ferrari driver. Targeting. Not winning. Different verb entirely.
Backwards again. September fourth, first practice: Leclerc headed Hamilton, not the other way round, while that engine upgrade boosted the whole Ferrari team. You've now got the podium order wrong twice this column. Go lie down for ten minutes.
Gus, hang that mic up — that's a political desk problem, not a sports page problem. But since you put a number under it: the Morning Star had Hamilton racing into territory no one before him had reached, September third, the first Black driver aiming to win the Italian Grand Prix in Ferrari colors.
“Guy says the whole leadership's gotta go, then names the one man who keeps his job — that's not reform, that's a press conference. Same move every boardroom in this country pulls: blame the structure, protect the chair. Meanwhile the teammate's already a step ahead of him and nobody's losing a seat over that either.”
The receipts
· Hamilton targets historic Ferrari win at Italian Grand Prix from the morgue, 3 Sep 2026
· Leclerc heads Hamilton in Italian Grand Prix practice from the morgue, 4 Sep 2026
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