Fred Vasseur admits that Ferrari should discover a solution to the “fairly unusual” drawback which bothered Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari within the Hungarian Grand Prix and led to a “catastrophe” last stint.
Leclerc had taken a sensational and sudden pole place for Sunday’s race, having outqualified the faster McLaren pairing of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris.
The Monegasque driver held the lead off the road and maintained the place till his first pit cease, however nonetheless remained forward of Piastri who had tried the undercut technique to maneuver in entrance.
Having moved again into the lead when Norris made his sole pit cease, Leclerc dropped again into P2 after his second go to to the pit lane and was nonetheless forward of Piastri on the identical technique.
However the Ferrari man dramatically misplaced tempo within the last stint, being handed by each Piastri and the Mercedes of George Russell, with Leclerc handed a five-second penalty after transferring beneath braking because the Briton overtook him.
It nonetheless left him fourth within the classification, with Leclerc having despatched a number of livid radio messages throughout the race to his crew, solely to be informed after that the car had suffered a suspected chassis issue.
Group Principal Vasseur, who additionally came to the defence of Lewis Hamilton after the Briton suffered a troublesome weekend in Budapest, stated the crew wanted to analyze the issue to search out out precisely what went unsuitable.
“I need to say that the state of affairs was fairly unusual, that we had been beneath management the primary 40 laps of the race, that we’re very in management the primary stint, a bit harder the second, nevertheless it was nonetheless manageable,” stated Vasseur, who it was confirmed in Hungary had signed a multi-year deal to stay at Ferrari.
“And the final stint was a catastrophe, very troublesome to drive, that stability was not there and truthfully we do not know precisely what’s occurred to date.
“It signifies that we have now to analyze if we have now one thing damaged on the chassis aspect or no matter, however at one stage I believed that we’ll by no means end the race. We might be fortunate on this state of affairs to attain factors of a P4.
“It is actually irritating for us as a result of I believe we did the primary pole place of the season. The primary two stints went fairly effectively, and we misplaced fully the tempo and the tempo of the weekend on the final run.”
