Ferrari chief Frederic Vasseur insists that his team will not change his approach, despite the unsatisfactory opening of the three rounds of the Formula 1 2025 season.
The fourth and Lewis Hamilton seventh in Japan Charles Leclerca meant Ferrari’s best Sunday 2025, but in the designers’ championship he left them 76 points per McLaren.
It seems that double disqualification in China forced Ferrari to run his car higher than he wanted, so he hurts performance.
Leclerc feels that he “maximized” his racing weekend for the Japanese Grand Prix by starting and finished fourth, but saying it is “not great” to be 16 seconds behind the winner of Max Verstappen.
Vasseur said: “The last two years we started like this. But we don’t have to change this approach. We were almost in the same situation a year ago, maybe a little worse when it comes to the pace, and the reaction of the team was very, very strong.
“We worked as a team, we took small steps with small steps and we have to keep exactly the same approach this season. It is definitely not ideal and I’d rather win the first two or first three races.”
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Bernie Collins looks closer to how Ferrari has suffered a double disqualification on the Chinese Grand Prix and how is it expensive for the team this season
Vasseur also referred to Ferrari, who was out of pace 12 months ago before he returned to win five races and missed the title of designers by only 14 points.
He says there is no “magic bullet” and will probably require Ferrari to improve in several areas by several hundredths of a second.
“Last year we were six tenths on average and we could return during the season,” Vasseur added.
“We need to maintain the same approach. It doesn’t matter on the gap, no matter the results of today, we need to try to do a better job next week to improve the potential and also the extraction of the car potential. We have to improve everywhere.”
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Sky Sports F1 Review The Japanese Grand Prix
Hamilton: A lot of work to close the gap
Hamilton gained only 15 points in his first campaign as a Ferrari F1 driver and hopes that this year’s eighth world title is rapidly shrinking.
A forty -year -old man after the Japanese Grand Prix revealed that the element on his car is “insufficiently powerful”, but suggested that it is not on the Leclerc’s team.
Hamilton says that Ferrari has to improve “everywhere”, but is optimistic about a more competitive weekend in Bahrain, where their cars should suit slower corners and long planes.
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Ted Kravitz from Sky F1 thought about all the big points talking from the Japanese Grand Prix
“It will be interesting. I just hope we are a little closer,” he said.
“We were probably the fourth fastest in Japan and we are a little gone when it comes to the level of the pressure, so we have to do some work to close the gap.
“We will be slowly in the car. It will be interesting to see when people get upgrades in the season. We have a lot of work to close the gap to the best boys who probably on us three or four tenths, so we have a lot of work to do.”
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Emphasizes from the Japanese Grand Prix from 2025 from the Suzuka circuit
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