Ferrari, Frederic Vasseur sees ‘light at the end of the tunnel’
Frederic Vasseur’s words after the Canadian Grand Prix
It is a satisfied Frederic Vasseur who comes to the microphones of Sky Sport to comment on the Canadian Grand Prix, where the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz finished fourth and fifth respectively. “Today was a good day and good race,” he stressed, “We were fast from Friday and competitive both on the dry lap and the race pace. Yesterday was more difficult because of the complicated conditions, we started from 10th and 11th place, a little too far back for us, but today we made a great comeback. We see the light at the end of the tunnel. The pace and strategy were good, we decided to leave them out for a few laps with a clean track so we could push, and they did a good job. It’s always important for everyone’s confidence, we knew we showed good pace from Friday, but there were some unknowns, you never know the mappings of other people’s engines, fuel loads and so on. It’s much better to have a strong race, in the last 30 laps we had the same pace as Hamilton and Alonso, and that’s a good step forward.”
“Regret for qualifying is not the right word, we have to try to correct the mistakes we made, and we will discuss them on Tuesday,” added Ferrari’s team principal. “Yesterday it was important to close the chapter by focusing on the race to give our best, but it will also be a good lesson for Austria.
“I think we are improving step by step, but we are also waiting for confirmations on other tracks, because Montreal is quite particular for tire consumption, the curbs make a difference and it was a ‘green’ track. We should not try to imagine what we can do, but we have to focus on the next GP, where we will bring updates to put everything together and have a mistake-free weekend. I don’t want to talk about victories, we are focused on ourselves and we know that if you want to achieve a certain result you have to have a perfect weekend.No doubt in Austria there will be one more chance with the Sprint, and I am quite optimistic,” concluded Vasseur.
