After the Japanese GP, Ferrari team boss Frederic Vasseur was asked a question about Lewis Hamilton and a clearly irritated Frederic Vasseur did not want to answer that question. It resulted in a somewhat strange moment in the middle of the interviews.
Before the season it was announced that Lewis Hamilton will leave Mercedes at the end of this year and will race for Ferrari next year. At Ferrari, Carlos Sainz will have to make way for Hamilton and it was written in the stars that the media would bombard Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari with questions about this all season long.
The fact that Lewis Hamilton has started the season poorly and Carlos Sainz is performing brilliantly despite an appendectomy only makes the media enjoy the whole story even more. Like many fans, the question is asked whether Ferrari made the right choice by putting Carlos Sainz aside for Lewis Hamilton.
In Japan, Ferrari team boss Frederic Vasseur was asked whether he would have made a different decision in an alternative world, in which Lewis Hamilton had not yet signed for Ferrari.
You will ask the same question every weekend. You can copy my answer from last time and write it down again. Next question! replied a visibly irritated Frederic Vasseur.
Ferrari’s press representative also clearly did not know what to do, but then further questions were asked, but not a single question about Lewis Hamilton