Fred Vasseur believes Ferrari “failed massively” in Canada after failing to execute a clear weekend, regardless of his drivers each ending within the factors in Montreal.
Charles Leclerc got here house fifth and Lewis Hamilton sixth, each inheriting a place because of the late retirement of Lando Norris. However Ferrari weren’t on the tempo of Mercedes, Crimson Bull or McLaren – and that wasn’t purely all the way down to the automotive.
Leclerc crashed on Friday in Free Follow 1, which price him the whole lot of FP2 as effectively.
There have been additionally query marks over the tyre technique in Qualifying, with Ferrari specializing in utilizing the C6 gentle whereas Mercedes and Crimson Bull used the medium to good impact. These questions intensified in the course of the race, with Leclerc querying the choice to place him onto a two-stop technique.
And Ferrari’s trigger was not helped by Hamilton choosing up ground harm after hitting an animal.
“I believe we made too many errors collectively from the start with the crash in FP1, with the error in Quali, with the marmot within the race,” Vasseur defined.
“And on the finish the struggle is so tight – I am not talking about lap time or race time, I am talking about that you would be able to change the place for nearly nothing from one weekend to a different one.
“It is a good lesson additionally from Mercedes. They have been nowhere the final three weekends and so they have been in a position to have the 2 automobiles on the rostrum this weekend.
“I am undecided that they modified fully the automotive, it is extra that from the start of the weekend, from Lap 1 on Friday morning, they have been there, they did a very good job within the preparation and so forth. And truthfully this weekend, for various causes, the main focus was not all the time there [for us].”
Vasseur added that, with the margins so small in 2025, executing the right weekend issues virtually greater than automotive set-up or any upgrades a staff may deliver.
“Truthfully, I am undecided that the attribute of the automotive is the principle challenge at the moment. The principle challenge is to do a very good utilization of the tyres first, and to grasp the tyres and to decide on the great ones for the Quali, and the train is kind of tough.
“I believe at the moment that Max [Verstappen] and Mercedes did a greater job on the weekend than McLaren and us, however they have been additionally into the selection of the tyres most likely from the start of the weekend, and this you must commit from Friday morning virtually.
“Even earlier than the weekend, you must put all the things collectively in the precise place if you wish to obtain a very good outcome at the moment, as a result of within the tyre utilization and the tyre efficiency, or what efficiency you get from the tyres, I believe there’s rather more than between the automobiles.
“It does not matter the automotive, if the staff is doing an excellent job on the tyres, they are going to be in entrance. It is true this weekend, it was true in Monaco, it was true in Imola, and it’s like it’s, and it will likely be like this till the top of the season. However it’s the identical for everyone, now we have to do a greater job.”
Vasseur hinted that Ferrari would have some small upgrades in Austria – however was eager to emphasize that sharpening up the operation throughout the entire weekend would have far larger an affect than any upgrades.
“If we wish to obtain, if we wish to begin from the primary rows and to have a clear weekend as [in] Monaco, we have to do a really clean weekend when it comes to execution, and it is the place we failed massively in Canada,” he concluded.
Ferrari have slipped again to 3rd within the Teams’ Championship, 16 factors behind Mercedes.
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