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24-03-2024 – 08:40
(ANSA) – ROME, MARCH 24 – “It’s really too early to talk about fighting for the world championship with Red Bull. We have made a big step forward compared to last season. We will rebuild the pace from Friday also in Suzuka, but we don’t want to reach to conclusions today”. Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur is happy with the Rossa double in Melbourne but at the same time calms down enthusiasm: “We must commit ourselves in the same way without thinking we have arrived, continuing to focus on our objectives – he explains to Sky Sport – From the beginning of the season I say that our riders are doing very well and pushing each other to improve session after session. This is part of an emulative process that is necessary within the team.
They are also very intelligent on the track, when we asked them to maintain positions, and from the first lap everything was perfect.” “This year the car is easier to read for us and the drivers, and it is a better basis for developing it and improve over the weekend. We are able to be more consistent, unlike last year. It’s really too early to draw conclusions, but we’re certainly doing better than we were 12 months ago. The path is very long ahead of us, we are at the beginning of the season, the fundamental thing is to understand the car and get the best from the package we have”, he continued. I don’t know and no one knows if this double would have happened without the retirement of Verstappen. If we make a comparison with Perez’s pace it seems manageable, but we can’t know and it’s a completely different situation. We have to enjoy what has happened, we still have 20-21 races to fight with Max. The pace has been excellent since start, I would say one of the cleanest weekends of my last 12 months.” “There is still a bit of room for improvement for the next weekends, but this applies to everyone on the grid. We no longer have winter testing, so we need a couple of events to understand the car better. I would say that this weekend we are went very well, but in the end it will be a completely different situation in Suzuka and we will start from scratch. It’s not a given – concludes Vasseur – that it will be like this every weekend, we have to keep pushing”. (HANDLE). .
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24-03-2024 – 08:40