Ferrari crew principal Fred Vasseur has revealed the most important limitation hampering their 2025 F1 automobile.
F1’s most iconic and profitable crew have endured a woeful begin to the brand new marketing campaign with their lack of competitiveness leaving Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc massively pissed off.
Leclerc and Hamilton may solely end seventh and eighth on the Miami Grand Prix after qualifying eighth and twelfth respectively, marking the crew’s worst qualifying results of the season up to now.
In response to Vasseur, that’s right down to Ferrari’s SF-25 automobile struggling to get the most effective out of latest tyres over a single lap.
“Should you don’t take into account the quali, we misplaced the weekend of the utmost of factors since yesterday in quali,” Vasseur informed media together with Crash.internet after Sunday’s race in Miami.
“Yesterday in quali our quickest lap with the 2 automobiles was with scrubbed and never with new. We weren’t capable of get the potential of the brand new tyres.
“The lap that we did in scrubbed was not that unhealthy. It was in all probability P4, P5. However when the others put a brand new set [on] we misplaced the 4-5 place.
“Clearly it’s the place we now have to enhance, in case you have a have a look at the worldwide image of the weekend. It’s the place we now have to enhance to get the most effective from the brand new tyres and to do a step ahead.
“I believe the tempo at the moment is at all times troublesome if you end up caught within the pack. However the tempo at the moment was in all probability matching with Crimson Bull and Mercedes.
“I believe McLaren was on one other planet at the moment. We by no means stated that we may have fought with McLaren. However with a greater place we agreed to combat with Max and Mercedes.”
Getting on high of tyres key for Ferrari
Requested why Ferrari struggled with tyres in Miami, Vasseur stated: “That is an excellent query. If I knew the reply, I might do a step ahead and we’d have mounted it between Q2 and Q3.
“You at all times must function the tyres in a really slim window. It is totally different from monitor to trace, it is totally different from compound to compound, from monitor temp to trace temp.
“And it is at all times after the session that you simply say, ‘OK, I may have executed in a different way.’
“I believe we had been capable of do a greater job the final two or three occasions, even when the quali was at all times not our greatest session.
“However yesterday was, from far, the worst of the season by way of pure quali, as a result of we didn’t in any respect extract the potential of the tyres.
“When you’ve got a glance, everyone improved 5 or 6 tenths between scrubbed to new, and we misplaced two or three tenths.”
