‘If he’s trying to put pressure’ - Ferrari boss shrugs off Fernando Alonso’s claim
Fred Vasseur has responded to Fernando Alonso'✨s bold prediction about Ferrari's F1 prospects.
Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has responded to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso’s claim about the team’s prospects for the upcoming F1 races.
Speaking after the Dutch Grand Prix, the Aston Martin driver made a168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: bold prediction that Ferrari would be the🀅 team to beat at the Italian Grand Prix - their home race - and the upcoming Singapore Grand Prix.
F𓃲errari have lost ground to Red Bull since the start of the season and appear to have been overtaken by McLaren and Mercedes in the competitive order.
The Italian outfit claimed an unexpected podium at Zandvoort, having recovered well from a dire qualifying performance, with168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Charles Leclerc ending up a second off the pace in sixth and168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Carlos Sainz dumped out in Q2.
Alonso claimed Ferrari “will be the favourites” in𒆙 two of the next three races.
“I think the top four teams, maybe Mercedes, are a lit𝄹tle bit up and down, but McLaren, Red Bu🔥ll and Ferrari, they are podium contenders every weekend,” he said.
“The next two races [not including Baku], for example, Ferrari should be tℱhe car to beat. What we saw last year in Monza and Singapore, Leclerc's win in Monaco this year, for Singapore, I think they will be the favourites.”
Ferrari team principal Vasseur was asked about Alonso’s comments but was quick to downplay any suggestions that his teaﷺm are favourites.
“If he’s trying to put pressure, he has to be sure that I won’t read the Twitter of Fernando A🍸lonso,” Vasseur said.
“I don’t have Twitter, but I don’t need to have someone telling me that we are th🐠e favourite or not.
“We will have exactꦏly the same approach in any case. I hope that we will be in a better shape 💃in the next two or three events.
“We were in 🌞a much better shape ꦇlast year on these tracks.
“Again, it’s a matter 🦩of details. The fact that we are in a better shape on the short corner will help us. If we are able to do a step of one or two tenths, it’s a game changer.
“We know also that everybody is improving. We know also that today we ha𒁃d still a big gap with Lando and that we were quite far away. It means that we have a lot of work to do.
“I will never go to Monza, Baku or whate🌱ver with the feeling that it will be an easy one.”
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