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Leclerc scored the most points of any driver after the summer break. I think it's fully justified to believe he could win the championship if Ferrari remains as competitive as they are. He has been absolutely incredible, but the car needs to remain consistently good for him to win the WDC.
You think he should’ve come up with an imaginary 1-2 tenths?Sphere3758 wrote: ↑08 Dec 2024, 17:49Stunning drive from Charles! Carlos saying McLaren was a tenth faster was a bit annoying at the end. If he truly believed that, he should have pushed Lando a bit more
Anyway, onto better things for next year. The Leclerc/Hamilton race pace battle is going to hit like crack!
The assessment drawn by Frederic Vasseur on the Ferrari season is however positive, despite immediately wanting to underline the difficult moments and, describing himself as severe, giving the team a low rating of "6 or 7" . There is room for improvement. But I am especially proud of how we reacted in difficult moments like in Canada, with the update in Spain, the incidents in Singapore and Baku and also the performance in Las Vegas. However, each time we came back stronger than before , both as teams and the riders themselves . " In particular, the Frenchman spoke about the technical crisis faced with the Barcelona update which did not allow the SF-24 to make the leap forward in performance that was expected. “ Between Austria and the UK we understood that the update was not working. We said to ourselves, okay, this is the situation, let's take a step back and try again. We were all very open and there was no blaming or internal fighting and this is a positive message and I am very proud of it."
I think it’s a good assessment tbh. On the one hand, the failure of that one update ultimately cost us a reasonable shot at the WCC, and so to give a higher score than 7 would be a bit too pleased with yourself. But the reaction was really really strong. Not only did we lose points in those specific races where the car wasn’t performing, we also wasted time and money on fixing the problem - the competitiveness we’ve had until the end of the season across different kinds of tracks has been very impressive in the circumstances.Vanja #66 wrote: ↑08 Dec 2024, 22:17Vasseur gives 6-7 to the team for this season, believes much more can be done next year. I guess he's thinking 6.5 for 650p won
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The assessment drawn by Frederic Vasseur on the Ferrari season is however positive, despite immediately wanting to underline the difficult moments and, describing himself as severe, giving the team a low rating of "6 or 7" . There is room for improvement. But I am especially proud of how we reacted in difficult moments like in Canada, with the update in Spain, the incidents in Singapore and Baku and also the performance in Las Vegas. However, each time we came back stronger than before , both as teams and the riders themselves . " In particular, the Frenchman spoke about the technical crisis faced with the Barcelona update which did not allow the SF-24 to make the leap forward in performance that was expected. “ Between Austria and the UK we understood that the update was not working. We said to ourselves, okay, this is the situation, let's take a step back and try again. We were all very open and there was no blaming or internal fighting and this is a positive message and I am very proud of it."
The score is correct. Without the Spain upgrade disaster we would have been in the fight for the WDC till the last race with Charles and won the WCC easily probably.Vanja #66 wrote: ↑08 Dec 2024, 22:17Vasseur gives 6-7 to the team for this season, believes much more can be done next year. I guess he's thinking 6.5 for 650p won
https://autoracer.it/it/vasseur-orgogli ... a-stagione
The assessment drawn by Frederic Vasseur on the Ferrari season is however positive, despite immediately wanting to underline the difficult moments and, describing himself as severe, giving the team a low rating of "6 or 7" . There is room for improvement. But I am especially proud of how we reacted in difficult moments like in Canada, with the update in Spain, the incidents in Singapore and Baku and also the performance in Las Vegas. However, each time we came back stronger than before , both as teams and the riders themselves . " In particular, the Frenchman spoke about the technical crisis faced with the Barcelona update which did not allow the SF-24 to make the leap forward in performance that was expected. “ Between Austria and the UK we understood that the update was not working. We said to ourselves, okay, this is the situation, let's take a step back and try again. We were all very open and there was no blaming or internal fighting and this is a positive message and I am very proud of it."
In the not-traffic-influenced 2nd half of the race, he lost around 10s to Norris, so something around 3 tenths a lap. Leclerc's tires were a couple of laps older
I hope they dont overthink it.f1316 wrote: ↑08 Dec 2024, 22:28Next year will be a tricky year to take the next step - we could risk doing a 2008/9 if we’re not careful about switching resources to 2026 early - but there’s ever chance we can start the year strong and, if so, we’ll give ourselves the best possible chance in both years.
Schumacher / Irvine - Barrichello happened decades prior tho
The only positive that is assured is Ferrari will have a WDC just like Alonso Vettel who came before him.
