In the previous year, Ferrari made it really exciting at least in the constructors World Cup at the back, put a big catch-up hunting and put McLaren under pressure until the last season race in Abu Dhabi.
In 2025, SCUDERIA is actually the first McLaren hunter again at season-also due to the fact that at Red Bull only Max Verstappen also gets points and Mercedes-Rokie Kimi Antonelli also leaves one or two points.
Not only because of McLaren’s strong form, the signs this year are completely different, because Ferrari’s gap to the leader is already 238 points – with 222 own points.
Vasseur: “Sometimes we can keep up, but …”
No wonder that team boss Fred Vasseur grants Silverstone: “We are realistic enough to realize that it is extremely difficult to catch up with McLaren.” The Frenchman explains with a view to the pure form: “You have a lead – sometimes we can keep up on certain routes or in certain conditions, but on the whole you have your nose ahead.”
And then the lead in the championship is already very big: “Even if we would win all races until the end of the season – I am not sure whether that would be enough to become world champion,” admits Vasseur – and reveals in the same breath: “As far as the dividing of resources into 2025 and 2026 is concerned: no worry – we know exactly what to do.”
However, the Scuderia team boss does not want to write off the current season: “We continue to fight – with Mercedes, with Red Bull – we continue to fight for racing, because that is important for the team.” Overall, the Frenchman, who nevertheless admits: “It is not enough to just be there. We want to win races. We don’t want to get races.
In Silverstone, Ferrari looked particularly strong in the training, scored the best time in three sessions with Hamilton and Leclerc – but in qualifying it put the cold shower with “only” places five and six for the red: “I would say that it was clearly due to the execution. Because in Q1 and Q2 we had exactly the same set -up on the car, everything was the same – and we were on the same – and we were on the same – and we were on the same – and we were on the same – and we were on the same – and we were on the same – and we were on the same – and we were on the same – And P2, “says Vasseur.
Ferrari team boss Vasseur: “We are back in battle”
But in the end “is about details,” says the Frenchman with a view to qualifying: “We had sun, clouds, then sun again – such little things in the route conditions can ensure that you either have a very good or just a good car. And that is exactly what makes a huge difference when five or six cars are within one or two tenths.”
Thus, Ferrari pulled the shorter one on the most important rounds of the weekend in Q3. But Vasseur does not want to get it down, says with a view to the performance with the new updates of the Scuderia: “What I take a positive thing: We are back in battle. It is the first time this season that we were really competitive in FP1, FP2, FP3, Q1 – well, rather Q2.” Just with a shortcoming: “In Q3 we should have done better work – we all know that.”