Ferrari System 1 boss Fred Vasseur is unfazed by his drivers Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton being publicly important of the squad regardless 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 reduce very annoyed 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 acquired criticism from Ferrari chairman Elkann, who claimed the pair want “to concentrate on driving and speak 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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“An important 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 typically on the radio and it will depend on the blokes… all of you already know Charles. [He] is at all times a little bit of important with himself first and with the group and with everyone, however it’s at all times with a constructive 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 every thing. But it surely’s a constructive dynamic that we’re there simply to do a greater job.
“It would not matter if you’re P4, P3, P1. The DNA is to do a greater job. I settle for this completely and crucial [thing] for me is that they maintain the identical method to the debriefing. To attempt to get a greater automotive, a greater group, a greater every thing and it is like this that we are going to enhance.”
Vasseur as a substitute went so far as saying that he truly 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 subsequent 12 months.
“I might be destroyed if I had the drivers telling me that we’re doing a great job,” he added. “The abstract of the season for a driver is to seek out the place we are able to enhance. At all times that I am not there to have [drivers telling me] ‘we’re doing a great 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 are able to enhance and we are able to enhance all over the place.
“However final 12 months, we have been combating till the final nook and the response was precisely the identical. And Charles mentioned, ‘OK guys, we have now 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 have now 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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