Ferrari will launch its 2025 car at Maranello on January 19, the day after F1’s first official “season launch”, which is being held at the O2 in London.
Visor said there would be no further public engagements for Hamilton’s team.
“We have to focus on the season,” he said. “It will be a very tight period between day one and launch and I want everyone to be fully focused on performance.
“We have the championship launch and the car unveiling. Those are two events and for me that’s too much. Or that’s enough to say. I want to focus on development and performance, not development. Show. “
And Vissor spoke for the first time about his discussions with Hamilton last winter which led to him joining Ferrari.
“In 2023 we won more races than Mercedes so it was not difficult to convince him that Ferrari would be a good project,” he said.
“He had the plan to drive Ferrari for at least 22 or 23 years since we were discussing it in 2004. It wasn’t too difficult.
“Sometimes it’s just coincidence or all the planets aligning, that it’s on the market, Ferrari has a seat available, etc. The connection was easy. We started talking a year ago and it was It is not difficult to convince him.”
Ferrari lost the constructors’ championship by 14 points to McLaren in the final race of 2024 and Vissor said he expected another close fight between the top four teams, including Red Bull and Mercedes, next season.
He said about the details of what we have to do to win next year. “We’ve made good improvements in every area but we’re still 14 points short of the championship. It’s a lot and almost nothing, it’s a DNF, a race incident, a strategic decision.
“We are talking about the details on each pillar. Each mistake, each decision will make a big decision. I am sure that next year the championship will also be tough and we cannot let a single point slip away.”
