Fred Vasseur believes Ferrari “failed massively” in Canada after failing to execute a clear weekend, regardless of his drivers each ending within the factors in Montreal.
Charles Leclerc got here dwelling fifth and Lewis Hamilton sixth, each inheriting a place due to the late retirement of Lando Norris. However Ferrari weren’t on the tempo of Mercedes, Pink Bull or McLaren – and that wasn’t purely right down to the automotive.
Leclerc crashed on Friday in Free Follow 1, which value him the whole thing of FP2 as effectively.
There have been additionally query marks over the tyre technique in Qualifying, with Ferrari specializing in utilizing the C6 comfortable whereas Mercedes and Pink Bull used the medium to good impact. These questions intensified throughout the race, with Leclerc querying the choice to place him onto a two-stop technique.
And Ferrari’s trigger was not helped by Hamilton selecting up flooring injury after hitting an animal.
“I feel we made too many errors collectively from the start with the crash in FP1, with the error in Quali, with the marmot within the race,” Vasseur defined.
“And on the finish the struggle is so tight – I am not talking about lap time or race time, I am talking about you can change the place for nearly nothing from one weekend to a different one.
“It is a good lesson additionally from Mercedes. They had been nowhere the final three weekends and so they had been capable of have the 2 vehicles on the rostrum this weekend.
“I am undecided that they modified utterly the automotive, it is extra that from the start of the weekend, from Lap 1 on Friday morning, they had been there, they did a great job within the preparation and so forth. And actually this weekend, for various causes, the main target was not all the time there [for us].”
Vasseur added that, with the margins so small in 2025, executing the proper weekend issues nearly greater than automotive set-up or any upgrades a group would possibly convey.
“Actually, I am undecided that the attribute of the automotive is the primary situation as we speak. The primary situation is to do a great utilization of the tyres first, and to know the tyres and to decide on the great ones for the Quali, and the train is sort of troublesome.
“I feel as we speak that Max [Verstappen] and Mercedes did a greater job on the weekend than McLaren and us, however they had been additionally into the selection of the tyres most likely from the start of the weekend, and this it’s a must to commit from Friday morning nearly.
“Even earlier than the weekend, it’s a must to put all the pieces collectively in the best place if you wish to obtain a great outcome as we speak, as a result of within the tyre utilization and the tyre efficiency, or what efficiency you get from the tyres, I feel there’s far more than between the vehicles.
