Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has further explained the compromise the team is having to make after Lewis Hamilton’s comments on the SF-25.<\/p>\n
After qualifying at Suzuka, Hamilton explained that the team had to raise the ride height of the car to avoid the skid-block hitting the track – a contributing factor in Hamilton’s disqualification from the Chinese GP.<\/p>\n
With the ground-effect cars, any rise in the ride height affects performance, with Ferrari currently fourth in the constructors’ championship with only 35 points, already 76 behind leaders McLaren.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Asked about the problem, Vasseur explained how the team was trying to push the limit of the rules, but naturally is wary of risking a further disqualification.<\/p>\n
“For sure, we all want to run the car lower and we all want to have more downforce in this situation, it would be better, but there is a limit,” Vasseur told media including RacingNews365.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n “But there is a limit, the limit is bottoming and the limit is also the regulations.\u00a0<\/p>\n “We are all spending the weekend finding what the limit is, where we can run the car a bit lower but then you are too low.\u00a0<\/p>\n “It is the same for everybody and we all know that car performance is linked a lot to the ride height, it is true for us and true for everybody over the last few years.<\/p>\n “We were disqualified [at the 2023 United States GP with Leclerc along] with Mercedes [Hamilton] and it was because we were trying to reach the same point.<\/p>\n “It is not a characteristic of the car this year, or the characteristics of the Ferrari, it is true for all the teams.<\/p>\n “In the last two years, we started like this and it is not ideal. We would prefer to win than finish P5, that is clear.<\/p>\n “But we don’t have to change the approach, compared to one year ago, we were almost in the same situation, and perhaps a bit worse in terms of pace.<\/p>\n “And the reaction of the team was very, very strong. We worked as a team, and made small steps.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has further explained the compromise the team is having to make after Lewis Hamilton’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[859,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,13,998,1073,1072,12,1071,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-4280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1-calendar","10":"tag-f1-live","11":"tag-f1-results","12":"tag-f1-standings","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-lewis-hamilton","17":"tag-max-verstappen","18":"tag-motorsport","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114296307254425157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280","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=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}