Vasseur goes against the grain after the tension at Ferrari: "We did the job"

Considering the race delivered by the two drivers Ferrari, the Tifosi could legitimately expect strong statements from the day's protagonists. However, far from wanting to burst the boil, drivers and team directors played the relaxed card.

In Miami, the first strategic incident erupted when Lewis Hamilton et Charles Leclerc Both seemed motivated by the idea of ​​chasing Kimi Antonelli. Team boss Frédéric Vasseur was notably questioned by Canal+ about his vision after this difficult Grand Prix for the Scuderia.

"It might sound strange, but I think we did the job, Lewis was on medium at that time and Charles on hard, and Lewis certainly had a better chance of catching Antonelli., he first explained. We asked them to swap. Our internal rule is that if we don't catch the car in front, we swap again to get back to the initial position. So afterwards we can argue that we lost half a lap or a lap by doing so, but I don't think there are many teams today that have asked their drivers to swap."

Arguing in favour of the logic of the race, Frédéric Vasseur also commented on Hamilton's visible irritation at the slowness of the decision taken by the Ferrari engineers. “I had a chat with Lewis, he was a bit frustrated because he thought he could get past Charles a bit earlier, but in the end we played to our strengths, hammered the FrenchmanOur weekend wasn't about swapping positions or not."

A missed weekend even earlier according to Vasseur

Although the Miami deadline was not missed because of this unfortunate racing incident, it seems that Frédéric Vasseur believes that once again, the qualifying scenario was fatal for the team. "We didn't find the best balance. Yesterday we struggled a lot and our best lap in qualifying was on worn tires, recalled Frédéric Vasseur to Sky Sports. This is the first time this has happened in two years. It's frustrating. We have to work and solve our problems, one by one, and improve.

After another weekend in which the Scuderia once again missed the mark, the team director prefers to concentrate on the short-term future and the return of the Formula 1 in Europe within two weeks. "We'll have the opportunity to make a small step forward at Imola and there will be another step forward in Barcelona. We have to find the best compromise with the car and put everything together." he concluded, as he often does when discussing the problems of car.

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