Ferrari workforce principal Fred Vasseur has revealed the most important limitation hampering their 2025 F1 automobile.
F1’s most iconic and profitable workforce have endured a woeful begin to the brand new marketing campaign with their lack of competitiveness leaving Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc massively annoyed.
Leclerc and Hamilton might solely end seventh and eighth on the Miami Grand Prix after qualifying eighth and twelfth respectively, marking the workforce’s worst qualifying results of the season thus far.
In response to Vasseur, that’s right down to Ferrari’s SF-25 automobile struggling to get the very best out of recent tyres over a single lap.
“In case you don’t contemplate the quali, we misplaced the weekend of the utmost of factors since yesterday in quali,” Vasseur informed media together with Crash.web after Sunday’s race in Miami.
“Yesterday in quali our quickest lap with the 2 vehicles was with scrubbed and never with new. We weren’t in a position to get the potential of the brand new tyres.
“The lap that we did in scrubbed was not that dangerous. It was most likely P4, P5. However when the others put a brand new set [on] we misplaced the 4-5 place.
“Clearly it’s the place we’ve to enhance, when you have a take a look at the worldwide image of the weekend. It’s the place we’ve to enhance to get the very best from the brand new tyres and to do a step ahead.
“I feel the tempo as we speak is all the time tough when you’re caught within the pack. However the tempo as we speak was most likely matching with Crimson Bull and Mercedes.
“I feel McLaren was on one other planet as we speak. We by no means mentioned that we might have fought with McLaren. However with a greater place we agreed to struggle with Max and Mercedes.”
Getting on high of tyres key for Ferrari
Requested why Ferrari struggled with tyres in Miami, Vasseur mentioned: “That is query. If I knew the reply, I might do a step ahead and we might have mounted it between Q2 and Q3.
“You all the time need to function the tyres in a really slender window. It is completely different from observe to trace, it is completely different from compound to compound, from observe temp to trace temp.
“And it is all the time after the session that you simply say, ‘OK, I might have achieved in another way.’
“I feel we had been in a position to do a greater job the final two or three occasions, even when the quali was all the time 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, all people improved 5 or 6 tenths between scrubbed to new, and we misplaced two or three tenths.”
