Ferrari’s Formula 1 team principal says he is not going to point the blame at anyone after Lewis Hamilton struggled on a two-stop strategy in t🍸he Chinese Grand Prix.

Hamilton thought he'd limped to a P6 finish only to be 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:disqualified after the race.

While 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Hamilton showed supreme tyre management skills on medium rubber in Saturday’s sprint to 🧔take a fine victory, the grand prix on Sunday turned out to be a completely different affair for the seven-time F1 champion.

Despite starting ahead on the grid in fifth, Hamilton was asked to swap positions with teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc, who was able to lap fa🐎ster even with a broken front wing that had been damaged since the beginning of the r♌ace.

Ferrari brought Hamilton into the pits for a second time on lap 38 of 56 for a fresh set of hard tyres, costing him track position over Red Bull rival 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.

But that strategy choice backfired when the majority of the field decided to switch to a one-stopper, and Hamilton wasꦅ never able to close the gap back to Verstappen, who later overtook L𒐪eclerc to finish fourth.

Vasseur was naturally disappointed with the Briton's result at Shanghai, saying the team needs to collectively do a better job in the coming races.
 
“I don’t want to finger-point someone,ꦇ or to blameꦓ something,” Vasseur said.

“We have to do a better job, a🐈lso. We have to understand that we all have the same tyres. It’s always on the edge.

“We saw in the race that somet꧂imes Max was struggling, then comin♛g back, then struggling.

“As soon as they are not ꧒in the right window, it is much more difficult.”

Pirelli had predicted two stops to be the standard choice around the newl𝐆y-resurfaced Shanghai International Circuit, especiall🃏y as this year’s C2 tyre is much softer than what it brought last year on F1’s return to China after a four-year, COVID-induced hiatus.

Due to the sprint weekend format, team♔s hadn’t completed any running on hard tyres in practice, and as such they were not aware how it would perform on track.

As it turned out, the hard tyre was far more durable than had originally been expected, prompting most teams to 💫change their strategies mid-race.

While Hamilton was the only frontrunner who completed the race on two stops, Vasseur defended Ferrari’s choice on a tra🦩ck where tyre graining caused a lot of problems in the spr🌠int.

“Because the deg, at one point, was iꦓmportant,” he said. “You never know. If everybody has to pit, then it makes sense.

“It was a tough day today. Very strange becau🅰se on one side of the garage we had damage on the front wing. The pace we ൩had was encouraging, it was good.

“It was more difficult for Lewis. He had good tyre management yesterday but we♓ stru𓆏ggled more with the pace today.

“It is difficult to understand.

“We can take the positive from th♉e race of Charles, and the pace he had with the front wing [damage].”