Mar.28 (GMM) Frederic Vasseur has turned down a chance to “choose” Components 1 rival Pink Bull for dumping Liam Lawson after simply two grands prix.
At this time, the Frenchman leads Ferrari’s iconic F1 workforce, however he’s additionally well-known for his days in junior formulation administration – serving to to develop future stars like Lewis Hamilton and plenty of others.
However when requested if he would ever drop a driver after two races, Vasseur advised L’Equipe: “This can be a typical Pink Bull story, however you don’t have any thought how tough it’s to evaluate the processes which might be taking place in a workforce.
“We don’t know what’s happening there and what made them take that call. There may very well be billions of causes for that, recognized solely to the workforce and the person driver. And typically even the driving force doesn’t know them.
“So I might relatively not remark,” Vasseur added. “I in all probability really feel that it’s too harsh to make such choices after solely two races. However on the similar time, we wouldn’t have even 10 p.c of the data, so it’s higher to not attempt to choose anybody.
“I hate it when folks attempt to choose us, so I cannot choose others.”
Privately, Vasseur could also be thanking Pink Bull for taking the main focus off Ferrari within the wake of the Chinese language GP – the place each pink vehicles have been disqualified for technical infringements.
Vasseur admits Ferrari was too “aggressive” with its weight and ground put on settings and choices, however former driver Rene Arnoux defended the Maranello primarily based workforce.
“Ferrari wasn’t making an attempt to cheat,” he advised La Gazzetta dello Sport. “I categorically rule that out.
“If (Charles) Leclerc’s automobile had been ten kilos too mild, or if Hamilton’s automobile had been in blatant violation, then okay, we’d should query that. However this was a matter of nuance – a random anomaly.”
Others, nonetheless, criticise Ferrari for hyping up Hamilton’s arrival to stratospheric heights, solely to finally fail to ship.
“Folks say ‘Ah, you made a whole lot of noise with Lewis this winter’ – however no,” Vasseur hits again. “It was the press who made a whole lot of noise. We didn’t ask for something. We took a photograph. We didn’t even do an interview. We didn’t even do the launch in Maranello.”
One other results of the Hamilton mania is that Leclerc has been fully overshadowed.
“He’s much less within the highlight, it’s true,” Vasseur mentioned. “However that offers him extra time for himself, to do different issues, to be along with his engineers. So there’s some good on this scenario.
“There’ll maybe be slightly frustration, slightly jealousy, however I feel Charles is clever sufficient to grasp the scenario and see the constructive aspect of all of this. He can commit one hundred pc to reaching the sporting goal.”
