F1 | Alesi slams Ferrari: “Stopping upgrades was an embarrassing try and defend the 2025 failure”
Former Ferrari driver Jean Alesi didn’t maintain again. In his column for the Italian every day newspaper Corriere della Sera, Jean Alesi used extraordinarily harsh tones to touch upon Ferrari’s choice to halt growth of the SF-25 early within the season to deal with the 2026 automotive.
Simply three days after the Qatar Grand Prix, the penultimate spherical of the 2025 Method 1 season, Jean Alesi’s phrases hit like a thunderclap, breaking the silence surrounding Ferrari’s disappointing 12 months.
The previous Ferrari driver, who had just lately averted commenting on the group’s on-track outcomes, this time didn’t maintain again. His column has had a major media influence, drawing consideration to Ferrari’s strategic decisions.
Sturdy phrases from the Avignon-born driver had been largely aimed toward a group that failed to answer the not-so-subtle alerts from chairman John Elkann. However what angered Jean Alesi essentially the most was Ferrari’s choice to halt SF-25 growth very early – reportedly as early as April – to deal with the 2026 automotive.
Based on Jean Alesi, all groups have been balancing growth of each the 2025 and 2026 vehicles. This was a typical problem, making Ferrari’s excuses seem to be a poorly executed try and defend a horrible season.
“I averted speaking about Ferrari in current months. I do it now with nice disappointment. I assumed the criticisms expressed by the chairman towards the drivers would push the group to react, to present Leclerc and Hamilton a extra aggressive automotive. As an alternative, in Qatar we noticed the worst GP ever. A complete disappointment for us followers, each contemplating how Ferrari began the season and the way they carried out afterward.”
“Lewis could bear some duty, however he has received seven world titles, whereas Ferrari had nothing. I’m significantly involved concerning the future. Saying all growth was stopped to organize subsequent 12 months’s automotive looks like a really weak excuse. All groups did double work in 2025 – enhancing on monitor whereas creating the 2026 automotive. Ferrari’s method seems like an embarrassing try to guard this failure.”
Whereas Jean Alesi was scathing towards Ferrari, he reserved reward for Max Verstappen. The four-time world champion and Purple Bull obtained excessive marks for an outstanding comeback and for his willpower to maintain combating, even when it appeared the group may quit on the title.
“No matter the way it ends, particular point out for Verstappen. A real function mannequin: he by no means offers up, motivates the group, and is in good symbiosis along with his crew. Wonderful.”
As Ferrari heads to Abu Dhabi locked right into a disappointing fourth place, Jean Alesi’s intervention has reignited the talk contained in the passionate tifosi base – and put much more stress on Fred Vasseur and the group to ship a radically completely different story in 2026.
