Another painful weekend for Ferrari at the Singapore Grand Prix, with the SF-25 once again falling short of expectations. Journalist Leo Turrini offered a harsh and emotional assessment, declaring that this Ferrari is not living up to the team’s proud Formula 1 tradition. The weekend had started on a promising note, with strong performances from both Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc in FP1. However, things changed dramatically from the second free practice session onwards. Mercedes has now extended its advantage in the Constructors’ Championship, and even second place is starting to slip away.
It was another dark night in Singapore as Ferrari struggled between lift-and-coast management and an inconsistent race pace. Charles Leclerc’s strong start, where he gained two positions and moved ahead of Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s Mercedes, was ultimately wasted due to the SF-25’s fragility, which prevented the Monegasque driver from exploiting the car’s full potential. Leclerc, visibly frustrated at the end of the race, was eventually caught and overtaken by the young Italian talent.
The final result was a painful 2-0 in favor of Mercedes, which outperformed Ferrari with both of its cars. The standings now show a 27-point gap between the Silver Arrows and the Prancing Horse — still recoverable, but already contradicting the optimistic statements made by team principal Frédéric Vasseur just a few weeks ago. Back then, Fred Vasseur had admitted that Ferrari’s main focus for the rest of the season would be securing second place in the Constructors’ standings.
Turrini: “A Ferrari not worthy of its tradition”
To Leclerc’s difficulties were added even greater ones for Lewis Hamilton, who nearly failed to finish the race due to a brake issue. Analyzing the Grand Prix, the well-known journalist Leo Turrini didn’t mince words. Two years after Carlos Sainz’s victory in Singapore, Turrini noted that “Hamilton barely manages to finish an anonymous race due to brake problems, while Leclerc fights and struggles, sinking deeper into the black hole of a crisis that seems to have no escape.”
“Not only is McLaren celebrating the Constructors’ title,” Turrini continued in his column for quotidiano.net, “but even Mercedes is making the poor Prancing Horse eat dust. I’ll say it clearly: this Ferrari is not worthy of its tradition.” Since the confirmation of Frédéric Vasseur at the helm of the Maranello team, the expected change of pace has yet to arrive. The growing frustration expressed by both drivers, Turrini wrote, is “a very bad sign.”
According to Turrini, the Scuderia cannot resign itself to this sense of surrender. He described the situation as paradoxical: “Formula 1 has never been this popular around the world, yet the most famous brand on the planet is fading away melancholically in the background. Things simply cannot go on like this.”
