Martin Brundle airs major Ferrari concern with ‘football team’ warning

Martin Brundle has warned Ferrari it must not be like a "football team and fire the manager" after its poor start to the F1 season.

Ferrari is in fourth place in the constructors' championship after six rounds of the 2025 season, with just a single grand prix podium to its name through Charles Leclerc in Saudi Arabia, although Lewis Hamilton did win the China Sprint.

The Scuderia entered the season hoping to launch a championship challenge having finished 14 points behind McLaren in the 2024 constructors', but whilst McLaren looks on course to retain its title, and win the drivers', Ferrari has fallen away with the SF-25 machine.

Reflecting on their Miami GP, where Leclerc was seventh and Hamilton eighth after a team orders flare-up, Brundle felt Ferrari must not lurch into panic mode, like some football teams can do when managers do not immediately get winning results, as he also detailed a concern about the car itself.

"Of course, they are going to be super unhappy at Ferrari, they expected to be contenders for the championship, especially with a line-up like Leclerc and Hamilton," Brundle explained on the Sky Sports F1 podcast.

"What they mustn't do is be like a football team and just fire the manager and fire everybody for the sake of change - that won't improve anything at all, and we have seen teams make that mistake.

"But they were behind Williams, they were behind Mercedes, they were behind Red Bull and behind McLaren, they were the fifth fastest team, and if you look at it like that, that is a really big issue.

"They've got to understand that, and clearly, if they could change the car, they would if they knew what to do with it, and we saw last year, that Ferrari knew it had a problem and it took them several races, with all the racing and the cost cap going on to sort it out. 

"But there will be some heavy conversations at Ferrari, there has to be, and one Williams was ahead and the other was snapping at their heels, and Carlos Sainz got really unlucky with the virtual safety car, otherwise he might have been ahead of the pair of them."