{"id":227186,"date":"2025-06-30T17:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227186\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:42:09","slug":"dambrosio-responds-to-sudden-fred-vasseur-absence-at-austrian-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227186\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u2019Ambrosio responds to sudden Fred Vasseur absence at Austrian GP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jerome d\u2019Ambrosio played down the idea of debuting as a team principal at the Austrian Grand Prix.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With Ferrari<\/a> team principal Fred Vasseur not present on Grand Prix Sunday at the Red Bull Ring, deputy principal Jerome d\u2019Ambrosio stepped up to the plate, in what proved a decent race weekend for the Scuderia.<\/p>\n

Jerome d\u2019Ambrosio \u2018aligned\u2019 with Fred Vasseur at Ferrari<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Thomas Maher<\/p>\n

Ahead of the race in Austria, Ferrari confirmed that Vasseur would not be present and had gone home, explaining the reasoning.<\/p>\n

Their statement read: \u201cFred will not be at the track today, because he has had to return home for personal reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeputy team principal, Jerome d\u2019Ambrosio, will stand in for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ferrari brought an upgraded SF-25 to the Red Bull Ring and its first audition was positive, as Charles Leclerc made the front row before crossing the line P3 a day later, his fourth podium of the season. Lewis Hamilton was a comfortable P4.<\/p>\n

D\u2019Ambrosio was pleased with how the race went, and felt the de facto team principal status was a natural one to take on. After all, he is in contact with Vasseur \u201c20 times a day\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I debuted as a team principal today,\u201d d\u2019Ambrosio told the media, including PlanetF1.com, following the Austrian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did my role as deputy, and as part of it, if something like that happens, and Fred had to leave, then I stepped in.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think today went well, because we have a strong team. We have good people in the background. We have a strong engineering team, a strong mechanics team. Everyone did a great job. So for me, it was pretty straightforward from that perspective.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, at the factory, at the races, I speak to Fred 20 times a day. We\u2019re aligned. So it\u2019s not something that\u2026 I didn\u2019t feel like I was dropped into something like a fish out of water.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I have] been to many races this year. I\u2019m on the pit wall with the team. So in the end, we didn\u2019t deviate too much from what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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D\u2019Ambrosio would have already been a familiar name to many F1 fans. He made 20 grand prix starts across Marussia and Lotus stints, ahead of becoming Mercedes\u2019 driver development director.<\/p>\n

He emerged as a key ally for Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff, and served as de facto Mercedes principal for the 2023 Japanese and Qatar GPs after Wolff underwent knee surgery.<\/p>\n

D\u2019Ambrosio would move to Ferrari in 2024 as deputy team principal and boss of their driver academy.<\/p>\n

Read next: Stand-in Ferrari boss responds to Lewis Hamilton strategy disagreement at Austrian GP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jerome d\u2019Ambrosio played down the idea of debuting as a team principal at the Austrian Grand Prix. With…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[88064,4199,997,707,4200,7181,225,89482,12,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-227186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-austrian-grand-prix","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-ferrari","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-fred-vasseur","14":"tag-home-page","15":"tag-jerome-d","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114773553559366166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}