“External influences” have resulted in the Ferrari team making poor decisions under pressure for the likes of Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc over the years.

That is the claim of Neil Martin, Ferrari’s former head of strategy, who has insisted that the team’s “state-of-the-art” strategy tools are not the problem.

Lewis Hamilton finds new ally after Ferrari ‘pressure’ admission

Without a World Championship of any kind since 2008, Ferrari has developed a reputation for poor strategy decisions over recent years with Leclerc’s title challenge in 2022 collapsing partly as a result of a number of questionable decisions by the pit wall.

Hamilton has also found frustration in Ferrari’s strategy calls in F1 2025, having several tense exchanges with race engineer Riccardo Adami over team radi

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