Scuderia Ferrari 2025

Vasseur’s subtitled interview on Canal+, addressing pressure and speculation from Italian media "We need to ask the right questions on why Ferrari hasn’t been winning for years now. We changed the team principal, we changed the drivers, we have changed almost everything, except for one thing"

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/1lavn4x/vasseurs_subtitled_interview_on_canal_addressing/

 

Saw that.

ALOT of social media saying to get rid of Elkann and Vigna.

 

the only thing there is zero proof of is Lewis' mythical "issue with the car" claims.

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Vigna, as CEO, could probably be easy to replace.
Elkann ? I doubt if you can get rid of the main shareholder.

 

Doubt you'd get the board to sack either of them for F1-related issues. F1 is a side activity these days, while $RACE is up almost 140 % since Vigna took over. Even if it got to that, the whole conversation could be 180'd by praising Vigna and Elkann for the WEC campaign

 

The real problem with his car is the nut behind the steering wheel.

 

Insanely talented nut

 

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Try driving on a county road in middle America,

 

Deciding to stop working on the 2025 car and going full in on the 2026, Why cant you do both? Is it a money issue? I know there is a cap, but I would think that would be based on cost of that year car, no? It certainly cant be because Ferrari does not have the cash for both at once. Or is it a personnel and facilities issue?

 

It's the cost cap.

2025 is (yet another) wasted year for Ferrari. I'd have shifted focus to 2026 too.

Presumably, 2027 will be our year. or 28. But surely 29 or at a push 30?

 

Before stopping the development, at least they need to bring the new rear suspension. That´s something that can be useful for next year.

 

So the cap is the amount of money you spend in the actual year on your entire program. It doesn't matter that part of it is for the 26' car?

 

yeah exactly that. It's so that they don't spend ''next years'' budget on today and call it ''yeah but we're testing next years part on todays car, honest''.

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It's a wonderful system thought out by the powers that be so that a year later after audits are done we can see if everyone has counted their beans properly.

/sarcasm

 

So they would remove the head of a working operation to try to fix a non-working one ?
It would be a risky move, since they may end up with two operations not working (unless there is someone within the current WEC operation able to take over).

 

IF true, I am completely and utterly in amazement with this decision but it's not surprising to say the least....and going into a new formula as well while the car he gets for 2026 was under Vasseur.(Again, if true)
[smh]

 

Since 1950, Ferrari had no less than 23 directors of the Gestione Sportive (team principal) .
Jean Todt lasted 14 years; the Scuderia didn't win a WDC during the first 7 years of that period.
We may never know if Vasseur is any good, if he isn't given time to show what he can achieve.

 

The problem with Ferrari F1 is that the team is run by Italians.

Todt was the bidirectional bullship deflector. No BS from the race team got to management, no management BS got to the team.

I played this role for 7 years as a VP of engineering.

 

It would be the most Ferrari thing to do. From winning one prestigious race 3x in a row to winning nothing at all in 1 move.

 

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Absolutely !
Just remember all the Italian press asking for Todt’s replacement after the French Gp in 1996 ..
They are absolutely toxic for Ferrari in every way.