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Fred Vasseur on updates Ferrari

Ferrari soon brings back updates again: 'Just can't do weekly'

10 July 2023 at 19:27
Last update 10 July 2023 at 20:44
  • Kada Sarkozi
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And this time it was McLaren. Behind Max Verstappen's unapproachable Red Bull, Mercedes, Ferrari and Aston Martin had already been best-of-the-rest during a Grand Prix weekend. So at Silverstone, that role was up to Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, who suddenly came out on top with their updated McLaren.

Each weekend, the balance of power in Formula 1 seems to be changing. This makes the development race behind Red Bull extremely interesting. "I'm not sure that it's development," Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur harked back to that. "It's also a set-up during the weekend, because at one stage you will have a kind of asymptote, and with the upgrade you will make one or two tenths. With the set-up and preparation of the weekend, you can do more than this."


'Ferrari could have done more at Silverstone'

The fact is that Ferrari drove the same car at Silverstone as it did at the Austrian Grand Prix. "Yes, but you can't bring every single week an upgrade on the car, we'll have parts soon, but again, if I have a look at the weekend, I think we could have done a much better usage of the car that we had," Vasseur told GPblog and other media.

Afterwards, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, the two Ferrari drivers, complained about how sensitive their cars were to the wind at Silverstone. "The wind was extreme, today it was the same as Miami, but the performance was much better than Miami. I think we are focused on this, on the development, but for sure the car was unstable. I don't know if it was more unstable than the others. It looks like we struggled a lot, perhaps a bit more than some others when we were in the train, but it's still a characteristic of the car."

Ferrari finished the race ninth and 10th. In Hungary in a fortnight' time, the team is hoping for a better result. "On the paper yes, but then you have the set-up, it's not just a matter of package fitting with the track. The set-up that you are doing, the preparation of the weekend, the Friday that you are doing, are key and it will be even more in Budapest because it's so difficult to overtake that it will be crucial."