Ferrari has been accused by ex-Formula 1 driver Jolyon Palmer of not having the “execution” to score results in recent races that its package deserves.
The Scuderia has struggled throughout 2025, and is staring down the barrel of a potentially winless season, with Charles Leclerc’s five podiums and Lewis Hamilton’s solitary Sprint success the best it has shown.
Its SF-25 package has seen some marked improvement since the resumption of F1 from its summer break, but still has nothing to show for it.
Last time out in Azerbaijan, a difference of opinion in strategy saw Hamilton fail to reach Q3, with Leclerc crashing early in the final 12 minutes to start only 10th.
It led to Hamilton and Leclerc finishing eighth and ninth after a weekend which had initially promised much more, with the pair locking out the top two positions in FP2.
Speaking on the F1 Nation podcast, Palmer explained his deep dive into Ferrari’s recent underwhelming results, claiming it isn’t making use of a car he feels is quicker than Mercedes’ W16.
“For a few weeks now, I’ve been going big on Ferrari and now I’m going to scope a bit smaller on Ferrari after a couple of false dawns,” he said.
“I still think they have the better car than Mercedes, but their execution is not there.
“Monza was roughly okay, they probably finished where they roughly deserved, just outside of the podium.
“But Baku, you’ve got Hamilton on a used soft tyre trying to get around in Q2 and he goes out, then Leclerc hits the barriers in Q3 and they end up 10th and 12th on the grid.
“That’s so far away from what that car should have been capable of. That seems to be a little bit the story of Ferrari’s season.”
Logic dictates Ferrari could challenge for big points in F1 Singapore GP
Palmer explained further that this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix should be a relatively happy hunting ground for the team, provided it gets its strategy right.
“Before Singapore, I think they should beat Mercedes, but I went back and looked at the results from last year and I looked at qualifying, Ferrari were 10th and ninth on the grid,” he said.
“Carlos Sainz had a crash and Charles Leclerc didn’t get a lap time in for going over track limits at Turn 2.
“That just feels like the most Ferrari thing possible on a circuit where they should be quick.
“The amount of times they have these catastrophic no points out of a race weekend that you’ve got to be at least getting a top five.
“Logic would say they’re going to be good again, low speed, better than Mercedes, but they’ve got to put it on the board.”
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