Fred Vasseur delivered a frank asses꧑sment of where Ferrari’s 2025 car is going wrong after the F1 Emilia-🧸Romagna Grand Prix.

Ferrari enjo𓆏yed a better Sunday at Imola in front of t🦄heir adoring Tifosi than they might have expected.

A horrendous qualifying left 11th on the starting grid, and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton 12th.

Team principal Vasseur had vowed to take “risks” with his race ♈strategy - and was repaid with Hamilton finishing fourth, and Leclerc sixth.

Hamilton was only 1.4s short of the podium💯, with only Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and the McLarens ahead of him.

Ferrari honest about SF-25 limitation

“The positive side of this is that the pace was strong from the beginning to the end🍌,” Vasseur 🃏told Sky Sports afterwards.

“The strategy was good, and was well-executed.

“There is a bit of frustration because I think if we had started the race in a better position, then we could♏ have don🔴e better.”

Vasseur was c💜le🐬ar that the problems blighting Hamilton’s debut season wearing red occur on a Saturday, not a Sunday.

He said: “The last three or four events, we have this delta betwe📖en quali pace and race pa🍌ce.

“In Jeddah, we were the 𓆏fastest on track in the race. And three tenths off in quali.

“In Miami, i💙t was the same delta. This we♉ekend, probably the same.

“We don’t have the best car. Max was 🧸fastest, 💎clearly.

“But we are really close in these condi🎀tions. We need to ꦬmake a step in quali.”

Last year, Ham𒉰ilton was significantly out-qualified by then-M🙈ercedes teammate George Russell.

He has carried those difficulties in 𝓰F1 qualifying across to 2025 in a Ferrari.

But🎐 the struggles on the other side of the garage, from Leclerc who is famously rapid over a single lap, suggest the SF-25 is at least partly to blame.

Hamilton had left 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Imola “devastated” on Saturday after a terrible ses♚sion in front of his 🌠team’s fans.

But in the grand prix, Hamilton’s excellent drive to P4 left him jubilant. He even pointed out the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:calmer nature of his team r🦩adio 🥃communication wit൩h race engineer Riccardo Adami, which has previouslꦛy been scrutinised.

Ferrari justify Charles Leclerc v Alex Albon decision

Leclerc could have finished a place higher but Ferrari asked him to give a position back to Williams’ Alex Albon in the latter st♛ages.

Leclerc was being investiga꧒ted for a clash with the oncoming Albon but, rather than risk it, Ferrari nullified any FIA intervention by letting the Williams driver pass.

Leꩲclerc was inevitably unhappy and🍸 insisted he had done nothing wrong.

Vasseur justified his call: “We wer🧸e under investiga🐠tion.

“Our understanding of the💝 sit♛uation was that it was on the edge.

“A [five-second penalty♕] would have lost us four or five pos꧋itions. It made more sense to give up one.

“I had good reason to do it today.”