Ferrari workforce boss Fred Vasseur says his workforce must enhance “each single pillar of efficiency” to catch McLaren in 2025.
Ferrari simply fell in need of beating McLaren after an up-and-down marketing campaign by which the Scuderia returned to the championship battle and its drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz registered 5 wins and 22 podiums.
For the Maranello squad, 2024 was an enormous turnaround after a disappointing 2023 marketing campaign throughout which it struggled to get on prime of its tyre overheating points.
However given the fantastic margins between the Italian workforce, McLaren and final yr’s champion Crimson Bull, Vasseur is conscious there is no such thing as a silver bullet that may enable it to return out on prime subsequent yr, and it must discover marginal good points in each single facet as the present laws cycle enters its closing yr.
“I believe it will be a mistake to suppose that there’s one factor. If you wish to do an excellent job, it’s a must to be centered on each single pillar of efficiency, on each single space,” Vasseur mentioned.
“It’s true for each single a part of the automotive however I don’t need to begin going by the record, as a result of if I do this, I don’t need to level a finger at one group. However I believe in each single space and division of the corporate, we simply should do a greater job.
Frederic Vasseur, Workforce Principal and Basic Supervisor, Scuderia Ferrari
Photograph by: Ferrari
“This isn’t a criticism, it’s simply that it must be the mindset of the workforce that we have now to return in every morning and attempt to do a greater job than yesterday and attempt to enhance what we’re doing by hundredths of seconds. However this mindset is normal for sport and if we don’t have it, we’re useless.
“I’ll proceed to push. I’ll proceed to push all departments that they’re first to be satisfied that they’re all a efficiency contributor on each stage. And on each single space, we have now to do a greater job than 2024.”
When requested to summarise 2024, Vasseur mentioned he was pleased with the steps the workforce has made however could not assist feeling annoyed on the slender 14-point hole to McLaren, with Ferrari shedding key factors at a number of races together with Canada, Azerbaijan and Singapore.
“A superb [step], however not sufficient,” he mentioned. “When you evaluate with one yr in the past it’s an enormous step ahead and all the things is nice, we did an excellent [season] when it comes to pitstop, technique, reliability – we improved all over the place when it comes to pure efficiency.
“On the finish 14 factors are lacking and I believe in case you are 80 or 100 factors behind you don’t really feel the frustration. I’ve tonnes of ideas in my thoughts the place we misplaced the 14 factors, however it’s like it’s. McLaren additionally had some points, and it’s simply that we have now to do a greater job subsequent yr. However I’m additionally fairly pleased with the step that we did.”
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