Having a legacy doesn’t help you win.

By Danielle Jenkins 

Ferrari are making motorsports headlines for all the wrong reasons these days. Once a symbol of speed and greatness, they are now battling midfield teams for measly points. 

As the 2025 season began, Ferrari took on 7x world driver champion, Lewis Hamilton, to join their team alongside long time Ferrari driver, Charles Leclerc. 

The lineup seemed to be destined for greatness; Leclerc having been a dedicated Ferrari driver for years and consistently doing his most for points while Lewis is a champion making his first team change since 2013. 

Yet as the season has gone on, they’ve continued to under perform. And, with the championship battle coming to an end, neither Ferrari driver is in the running, not unless Leclerc has some sort of miracle in these last three races. 

With all the talk surrounding the team, fingers are being pointed, specially by their chairman, John Elkann, who has sparked outrage by blaming Hamilton and Leclerc for the team’s shortcomings. 

He claimed the drivers aren’t concentrating and says they are talking too much perhaps referencing the drivers’ press conferences and media pens. However these are FIA sanctioned and cannot be missed. 

The drivers have also done their best not to criticise the team and will regularly tale the blame themselves. 

Ferrari claims they have made many improvements to the car this year yet it’s performing significantly worse than last year and while Lewis Hamilton wasn’t exactly great last year, he did still win as did Leclerc. 

Yet this year the two are left without a win, minus Hamilton’s sprint win but why? That’s the big question. 

We know both drivers have been good in the past, especially Hamilton, but so has Ferrari, they are a legacy in the motorsport’s world, so is it time for all three to call it quits? Or is this just a bad year for them.