Vasseur's "amazing" first rodeo with a young Hamilton before F1 2025 reunion
Lewis Hamilton hadn’t even wanted to stay in F3 when he rocked up at Fred Vasseur’s ASM team for 2005. Little did either know they would work together two decades later at Ferrari
Out of a once-successful but now-broken partnership with a storied squad, and into the welcoming, generally jolly arms of Fred Vasseur at the helm of another. Lewis Hamilton has been here before.
Rewind 20 years, and Ferrari’s new Formula 1 superstar was merely a highly rated up-and-comer, with considerable McLaren backing. It was still early days in his single-seater career. Hamilton had won the Formula Renault UK title at the second attempt with Manor Motorsport in 2003. Manor then opted to switch its successful Formula 3 team out of the British championship and into the F3 Euro Series, to which it graduated with its young prodigy.
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