Ferrari Boss Says Latest Upgrade is Here to Stay
Jul.2 - Ferrari is not going to scrap its latest car upgrade, team boss Frederic Vasseur insists.
Italian racing driver Matteo Bobbi, now a commentator for Sky Italia, says that although the recent upgrade has added downforce to Ferrari's 2024 car, "it has brought the bouncing back".
"I would not be surprised if they brought the old floor to Silverstone for a comparison," he added.
However, there have been calls for the Maranello based team to simply scrap the new floor and related parts altogether.
"No, we are not going backwards," Vasseur insists. "We have to try to develop what we have."
The Frenchman suspects that the sprint weekend format in Austria meant Ferrari did not have enough time to perfect the car setup.
"Let's focus on Silverstone," said Vasseur. "It will be a normal weekend with enough sessions available to develop the car. The normal format is good for us because we can do some tests.
"We sometimes need the first and second practice sessions to start again from the beginning. I hope it will be a good step forward.
"The latest package gave us good points more in aerodynamic load and we need to start from there," Vasseur concluded.
Alpine's new executive advisor Flavio Briatore backed his fellow Italians to "recover".
"This year has been a good championship for them," he told Italian radio Rai. "They are among the protagonists, but at the moment they are the fourth force because the others made more incisive developments.
"But they can still recover," Briatore added.
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Its funny how, after Monaco, the talent and all the analyst were bloviating about how Ferrari was back and going to be a dominate force to be reckoned with at every race left on the calendar and that Max and RB was done. What a bunch of ignorant worthless analyst. Maybe if they weren't so biased against Max they could put together some intelligent and accurate analysis of where F1 stands and where its headed, instead of every race weekend Max and RB are off the pace by .010 of a sec claiming Max is done stick a fork in him.