Ferrari Respond To MASS EXODUS Rumours
Ever since Ferrari’s disappointing start to the season, there have been rumours that a majority of their personnel are set to leave the team. Team principal Fred Vasseur has now revealed the truth to Auto Hebdo
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Ferrari Respond To MASS EXODUS Rumours
Vasseur started off by revealing if there is any truth to the mass exodus rumours
“It's inevitable”
“There are people who were very close to Mattia and who prefer to leave, which doesn't bother me”
“And there are others who may have feared for a moment for their future”
He then made a strong statement of his own
“I have the means and the power of decision that I have never had elsewhere. This is the reality of the situation!”
“I find it difficult to understand why the team becomes a target after only one race”
He then spoke about the reliability issues faced by them despite having a smooth pre-season test
"As far as the correlation between the simulation and the track is concerned, we are in line”
"That's why I asked everyone to stay focused on performance and find solutions to reliability issues, because the championship is long”
He signed off by trying to show their Bahrain GP performance in a positive light
"Just because you don't win the first one doesn't mean you're on the sidelines”
“Bahrain was bad in some ways, and good in others”
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff believes that “anything can happen in motor racing” [Media Debrief]
“So we'll be working in Jeddah to maximise every part of our performance”
“Chasing every point, every position, and every millisecond”
McLaren’s Lando Norris pointed out “how big of a step Aston [Martin] have taken from one year to another. We saw how big of a step Ferrari took back in 2021 to 2022” [Media Debrief]
“And I know both of those were in the off-season [when] there’s more potential to do such a big change”
“But there’s no reason why 50% or 75% of that can’t be done through the season”
For Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, “it will be very interesting to see how everyone performs in Jeddah this week” [Reuters]
“I was very unlucky last year with the timing of the safety car while leading the race so hopefully it can be my turn to win”
For teammate Max Verstappen, it is “not really a surprise” [Planet F1]
“If you look at most of the cars, they all copied each other so everyone is getting smarter over the years anyway, with the same regulations”
“Naturally everyone is getting closer and in general, of course, understanding the car a bit better”
Retired F1 world champion Damon Hill highlighted that “F1 is about making steady progress” [GP Fans]
“But you have got to make progress faster than the others, that is the tricky thing”
Williams team boss James Vowles thinks that Aston Martin “have an extraordinary driver in the car” [F1]
Is Ferrari experiencing a crisis?