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'Vasseur don't mention aerodynamics, would affect technical pyramid'
- GPblog.com
Ferrari's results in Azerbaijan were encouraging, but a week later the Italian racing stable seem to have made exactly no progress. In Miami, updates were included for Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, but none of it helped much. Where does it lie? Corriere dello Sport thinks team boss Frederic Vasseur is not telling the whole story.
After the fifth Grand Prix of the season, Vasseur chose his words carefully. He pointed to 'the lack of consistency in performance' as the cause of the problems. The Frenchman, who replaced Mattia Binotto last winter, agreed that it was mainly to do with the level of tyre wear. The drivers, especially on Sunday, have (too) little confidence in the car.
The Italian newspaper read: "However, there is one word the team boss will stay away from: aerodynamics. Because admitting that a deficiency in that area is the root cause would affect the entire technical pyramid." In that area, Ferrari is in a bit in the corner where the blows are falling anyway, as at the beginning of this season the head of aerodynamics David Sanchez suddenly decided to leave.
Ferrari looking for reinforcements
Corriere dello Sport fears that Ferrari has lost part of its culture. Indeed, it is now looking outside the door in abundance for reinforcements, rather than having the right (Italian) people already in place in Maranello."They are definitely trying to attract a few engineers from the competition and there are rumours of two coming from Red Bull, but Ferrari has not named any names and there is also the glaring doubt that nothing has been signed yet."
Christian Horner also denied last weekend that any (key) engineers are about to move to Ferrari. The Red Bull Racing team boss even received two employees in his office expressing disbelief that their names had been linked in the media to a departure for Italy. Horner: "As for staff moving to Ferrari, certainly at high or middle level in the organisation there is nothing in the pipeline."
Work to do for Ferrari
Ferrari currently occupies fourth place in the World Championship and finishing there in 2023 would be a disaster. The people in Maranello need to get down to business, but as the aforementioned medium also writes: It is not only Ferrari that is taking updates, Mercedes and Aston Martin are also developing.