Ferrari crew principal Fred Vasseur has revealed the most important limitation hampering their 2025 F1 automotive.
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 annoyed.
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 to this point.
In response to Vasseur, that’s all the way down to Ferrari’s SF-25 automotive struggling to get the perfect out of latest tyres over a single lap.
“For those who 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.web 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 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 now have to enhance, if in case you have a take a look at the worldwide image of the weekend. It’s the place we now have to enhance to get the perfect from the brand new tyres and to do a step ahead.
“I believe the tempo at present is all the time tough when you find yourself caught within the pack. However the tempo at present was most likely matching with Purple Bull and Mercedes.
“I believe McLaren was on one other planet at present. We by no means mentioned that we may have fought with McLaren. However with a greater place we agreed to struggle with Max and Mercedes.”
Getting on prime 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’d have mounted it between Q2 and Q3.
“You all the time need to function the tyres in a really slim window. It is completely different from monitor to trace, it is completely different from compound to compound, from monitor temp to trace temp.
“And it is all the time after the session that you just say, ‘OK, I may have achieved otherwise.’
“I believe 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.
“If in case you have a glance, everyone improved 5 or 6 tenths between scrubbed to new, and we misplaced two or three tenths.”
