Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has dismissed the notion that the team’s 2025 Formula 1 season should be regarded as “a complete disaster” that needs “drastic changes”.
With two races remaining, the Italian marque is on course to end the campaign outside the top three in the Constructors’ Championship and without a single race win.
Ferrari relinquished second place to Mercedes earlier this month at Interlagos, a weekend which concluded with neither driver reaching the chequered flag in the race.
Last time out, Ferrari experienced another setback with a suboptimal weekend in Las Vegas that saw it cede more ground to Mercedes and also drop behind Red Bull.
Heading into the penultimate round this weekend in Qatar, Ferrari lies 13 points behind Red Bull, with Mercedes another 40 points ahead in the battle to come second.
But despite accepting that recent weeks have dealt a huge blow to the team’s ambitions, Vasseur believes that it would be wrong to label Ferrari’s 2025 a catastrophe.
“For sure we are not in the situation that we didn’t score points the last weekend, but we were P2 in the championship two weeks ago,” he told media including Motorsport Week.
“It’s not that it was a complete disaster. For me disaster is not the right word, but the tough side is that the last two weekends that we scored six or seven points on two weekends.”
“But before this, in the championship, we were in front of Mercedes and Red Bull. It means that it’s not so dramatic.”
Vasseur can understand Leclerc & Hamilton irritation
Charles Leclerc conceded that he will not miss driving Ferrari’s troubled SF-25 car, while Lewis Hamilton has described this campaign as his “worst ever” in the series.
“Now I can perfectly understand the drivers, they want to get more,” the Frenchman empathised.
“And trust me that in the debriefing on the Monday morning at the factory I’m also a bit harsh. But it’s our DNA that we want to get more in any case.
“I think Max [Verstappen], he will try also to get more from his team, from everybody to do a better job. This is the DNA of everybody into the paddock, it’s not a drama.”
And with Ferrari bidding to capitalise on new technical rules in 2026 to end its protracted title drought, Vasseur has denied that the squad requires extensive changes.
“You always want to do a better job, it’s the DNA of the racing team, and I think if you go through the grid today, except probably Max, everybody would love to do a better job.
“It means that it’s true for us, it’s true for the team, it’s true for Charles, it’s true for Lewis, and we want to get more.
“But the only way to get more is to work harder and to come back next week with more determination, more focus and to try to avoid mistakes and to develop the car.
“But it’s nothing that we have to change drastically.”
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