Ferrari Formulation 1 boss Fred Vasseur is unfazed by his drivers Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton being publicly important of the squad despite the fact that it irked John Elkann.
The 2025 F1 marketing campaign was extremely disappointing for the Scuderia, because it didn’t win a grand prix and dropped to fourth within the championship having misplaced the 2024 title to McLaren on the ultimate day.
Leclerc and Hamilton, who completed fifth and sixth within the drivers’ standings, have due to this fact usually minimize very pissed off figures in post-session interviews; on the Brazilian Grand Prix, for instance, the seven-time world champion mentioned “it’s a nightmare” following a double DNF.
However such fixed negativity obtained criticism from Ferrari chairman Elkann, who claimed the pair want “to give attention to driving and discuss much less” in a remark that prompted widespread debate.
But Vasseur has little curiosity in what the drivers say publicly, as a result of to him what issues are the interactions behind the scenes.
“I do not take note of the response within the TV pen,” mentioned Vasseur, after Ferrari completed fourth and eighth on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Frederic Vasseur, Ferrari
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“A very powerful for me is to have a man coming again to us and pushing the group to do a greater job and to work all collectively to attempt to get higher outcomes.
“The truth that they’re emotional generally on the radio and it will depend on the fellows… all of you recognize Charles. [He] is at all times a little bit of important with himself first and with the group and with everyone, but it surely’s at all times with a optimistic dynamic.
“I do know Charles for 10 years, 16 years and he was at all times like this. He was at all times complaining about all the things. Nevertheless it’s a optimistic dynamic that we’re there simply to do a greater job.
“It does not matter if you’re P4, P3, P1. The DNA is to do a greater job. I settle for this completely and a very powerful [thing] for me is that they preserve the identical strategy to the debriefing. To attempt to get a greater automobile, a greater group, a greater all the things and it is like this that we’ll enhance.”
Vasseur as a substitute went so far as saying that he really encourages his drivers to be important of the group, as a result of that’s merely how Ferrari returns to the highest when the brand new laws are available in subsequent yr.
“I might be destroyed if I had the drivers telling me that we’re doing a superb job,” he added. “The abstract of the season for a driver is to search out the place we will enhance. At all times that I am not there to have [drivers telling me] ‘we’re doing a superb job on this and this and this’.
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari
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“However their DNA and my DNA is to attempt to push the group to do a greater job. It means, they’ve to come back to us, Charles and Lewis, when it is not Lewis, it is Charles, it is each of them. They’ve to come back to us and to push the group on the restrict. All over the place, on each single space and for positive, we will enhance and we will enhance all over the place.
“However final yr, we had been combating till the final nook and the response was precisely the identical. And Charles mentioned, ‘OK guys, we’ve got to enhance on each single space. The simulator, the set-up, the aero’.
“That is the DNA of their job and the DNA of our sport. I am not shocked in any respect when they’re coming to me and say, Fred, we’ve got to enhance on this, this, this, this, this as a result of it is what we’re asking them to do.”
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