James Hinchcliffe doubts Ferrari's title win chances with Hamilton-Leclerc pairing

Ferrari is heading into the new season with a new pair of Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc. Regarding this, James Hinchcliffe is of the opinion that Ferrari will not be able to win the Driver’s title with this pair. Leclerc went into an agreement to join Hamilton for 2025 Championship. He parted ways with Mercedes after getting into a multi-year deal with Scuderia in early 2024.  

It is undoubtedly going to be an exciting season as Hamilton, regarded as one of the best drivers of Ferarri and will go on to take Leclerc, whereas, Leclerc is a replacement of Carlos Sainz.  

The seven-time world title winner will be speeding after his eight title win while Leclerc is yet to secure his first. Fred Vasseur is of the opinion that the title will definitely be secured by Ferarri as either Hamilton or Leclerc will surely be able to beat Max Verstappen and win the Driver’s Crown of 2025.  

Fred Vasseur confident in Ferrari's win

During an interaction with Sky F1, Fred said, “If you have a look at this season [2024], I think Charles scored the biggest number of points after Monza, or something like this when we started to react and started to do a better job on our side. It means that everything is possible, it’s just a matter to put everything together to minimise the number of mistakes.” 

“It’s true that on this season, the long season, 24 events that we have always up and down. But what is positive for us is that we had a tough journey around June, July, and as a team, we were able to react and to react quickly. And this is encouraging,” he further added. 

Even after this confidence which is shown by Fred, Hinchcliffe says that Ferrari has to pick one of the sides and back either one among the two. Although, it is expected that the two drivers would be treated equally by Scuderia, the Canadian yet sticks to his opinion claiming that sooner or later there has to be a choice made between Hamilton and Leclerc.