Ferrari crew principal Fred Vasseur admits he has quite a few races in his thoughts the place 14 further factors might have been scored which may have received the constructors’ championship for the Scuderia.
Lando Norris’ victory within the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix ensured McLaren received its first constructors’ title since 1998, beating Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc into second and third respectively. With simply 14 factors between the 2 groups on the finish of the season — a margin so small that Sainz beating Norris to the win would have given Ferrari the title — Vasseur admits the shut end result dangers overshadowing the progress made by the crew.
“ one (season), however not sufficient,” Vasseur stated. “I feel that in case you examine with one 12 months in the past, it’s an enormous step ahead — pit stops, technique, reliability… we improved in every single place, even by way of pure efficiency.
“It’s true that on the finish, 14 factors are lacking and I feel in case you are 80 or 100 factors behind, you don’t really feel the frustration. Tonight, I had tons of races in my thoughts the place we misplaced 14 factors this season, however it’s like it’s. McLaren additionally had some points, and we now have to do a greater job subsequent 12 months, however I’m additionally fairly happy with the step that we did.”
With Norris main and Sainz needing to discover a technique to get forward of the McLaren to win the title, Vasseur says Ferrari didn’t contemplate an additional pit cease simply to attempt one thing totally different as a result of it wasn’t the best risk of enhancing the consequence.
“Actually not, as a result of I feel a very powerful factor is to be targeted on your self and to do the perfect that we will do. Then, in case you keep shut, you don’t know what might occur — he might have a difficulty — and so we’re simply targeted on ourselves and to attempt to do the perfect we will.
“One of the best was the technique that we did. It was precisely what we didn’t need to do — to vary the technique or to vary the angle, simply because we’re preventing with McLaren. We have been simply targeted on ourselves from Friday, and I feel total, contemplating the [Leclerc grid] penalty, the observe limits and so forth, we did an excellent job.”
