Team principal Fred Vasseur has addressed the double disqualification that Ferrari endured at the F1 Chinese GP after Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton took the chequered flag in fifth and sixth place respectively on Sunday. Although Hamilton secured his and Ferrari’s first Sprint pole and cruised to victory in the Sprint race on Saturday, the…
Team principal Fred Vasseur has opened up about Charles Leclerc’s unexpected pace and Lewis Hamilton’s sudden drop in performance at the F1 Chinese GP as the Ferrari duo took the chequered flag in fifth and sixth place respectively on Sunday. Although he bounced back from his poor showing in Melbourne in a stellar fashion to…
Ferrari had an eventful F1 Chinese GP as Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc and Fred Vasseur ended up having a day to forget. Before the drama of the double disqualification that spoiled the Tifosi’s race day, it seemed that FOM had been attempting to generate drama of their own. The international broadcast only aired certain team…
After their disappointing start to the season in Melbourne, Ferrari appear to have taken a step forward in performance with Lewis Hamilton charging to pole and Charles Leclerc setting the fourth-fastest time in qualifying for the F1 Chinese GP Sprint race, with Fred Vasseur also giving his reaction. The Brit’s benchmark of 1:30.849 is now…
The 2025 F1 Australian GP was a rather frustrating one for Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc. The Monegasque and his SF-25 struggled in the perilous weather conditions, which saw multiple drivers spin out, and only managed to end the race in P8. What went wrong? Leclerc acknowledged the performance in the 2025 F1 Australian GP as…
Ferrari looked competitive in pre-season testing and the opening stages of the F1 Australian GP weekend but ended the race with Charles Leclerc in 8th and Lewis Hamilton in P10. The Italian team struggled to keep the rear tyres alive in qualifying, which cost Ferrari a lot of time in the final sector. Hamilton in…
Aiming to win a record eighth drivers’ title, Lewis Hamilton has opened up about the romanticism around Ferrari, his immediate reaction after team principal Fred Vasseur offered him a contract, and the sentiments that motivated his signing with the most successful F1 team of all time. When Ferrari dropped the bombshell on February 1 last…
With pre-season testing wrapped up and the first race in Albert Park just around the corner, Ferrari heads into the 2025 season with a renewed sense of optimism, and team principal Fred Vasseur has pulled off one of the biggest coups in F1 history, securing seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton to join Charles Leclerc in the…
In the third part of an exclusive interview with Pit Debrief, Xavier Marcos Padros, current technical director of Cadillac’s LMDh sportscar program, discussed the different leadership styles of Ferrari F1 team principals Mattia Binotto and Fred Vasseur. Working at Ferrari F1 from 2018 to 2024, and as Charles Leclerc’s race engineer, Marcos Padros noted that…
On the final day of F1 pre-season testing, Ferrari completed 113 laps in total around the Bahrain International Circuit, with Charles Leclerc getting behind the wheel of the SF-25 in the morning and Lewis Hamilton in the afternoon. Barring a brief interruption caused by debris on track that brought out the red flag, the Italian…
