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Ferrari team principal Vasseur: ‘Need to have a deep look on the weekend’
Ferrari did not have a great race in Silverstone. The Italian constructor's cars started in fourth and fifth place respectively, but by the end of the race, they could only get three points as a team, with Charles Leclerc finishing in P9 and Carlos Sainz finishing in P10.
Team principal Frederic Vasseur was not happy with his team’s result following the race. "Starting from P4, P5, and we had the feeling after the quali that we could have done a much better job than this. We can’t be happy finishing P9 and P10, but now we need to have a deep look on the weekend, not just on the race," Vasseur told GPblog among others.
"We were a bit scared with the deg, probably somewhere in our mind that we had the first races of the season, where today we were far too conservative on the tyre management and we didn't push enough. We were a bit unlucky with the safety car," Vasseur added.
On Ferrari’s problems
Vasseur was not completely dissatisfied following the race, and tried to understand what went wrong. This time, he said, it was not mainly the degradation. "It's difficult to say when you are finishing 9th and 10th that we did a good job, but overall I think that it's true that we had much less deg, which was the main issue at the beginning of the season, and it was not the case today. Perhaps we had a lack of pace compared to the Mercedes, but not the degradation. The pace is also a problem, the car is still a bit unstable with the wind and so on."
Looking forward to Hungary
Ferrari’s team principal also expanded on what he expects to happen at the next Grand Prix in Hungary. "I think Budapest is probably fitting a bit more with what we are doing and where we are performing. But again, more than this, because it's a direction that every single team is taking on the development, my concern is to do a better usage of the package that we have for the next weekend."