Overview
- Executive chairman John Elkann said his drivers should focus on driving and talk less, while praising mechanics and engineers and insisting second in the constructors' race remains possible.
- Lewis Hamilton responded on social media with a defiant message backing the team and himself, saying he will not give up.
- Charles Leclerc urged unity, calling it the only way to turn the situation around over the final three grands prix.
- Team principal Fred Vasseur decried the São Paulo outcome as a disgrace and noted Hamilton’s two collisions after early damage left him at the back.
- Both Ferraris retired in Brazil as the winless season continued, dropping the team to fourth, with Italian media widely reading Elkann’s remarks as directed chiefly at Hamilton.