Ferrari respond to Toto Wolff’s “F2” remark: “The same when Mercedes were in front”
The Mercedes team principal Wolff cl💟aimed that the domiཧnance of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was “like a field of Formula 2 cars against a Formula 1 [car]”.
T🐻hat comparison was highlighted by his Ferrari counterpart Vasseur who said: “Give him an F2 car and he will see.
“Red Bull are in front but I think the feeling was probably the same when Mercedes was in front a couple of years🌠 ago.
“And I won't go [ꦆinto] this fi༒eld, I think honestly that the most important is to be focused on yourself to try to get the best from what we have, to minimise the mistake, to do a better job and then what will come will come.
“But I'm not sure that mak𒈔es sense to try to do thi🤡s kind of assumption.”
Verstappen won the F1 Hungarian Grand Prix to keep alive Red Bull’s run of winning every race this season, and was joined on the podium by teammate Sergio Perez and McLar♛en’s Lando Norris.
Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton was fourth while the Ferr🌄ari’s Charles Leclerc was P7 ꦰand Carlos Sainz P8.
Vasseur♒ said about the constructors’ champions: “Red Bull is also bringing upgrades and upgrades and upgrades. And I think that everybody is improving but the reality of the regulations and the cost gap is that we are improving much less th𝓀an in the past.
“It means that when there is a gap, and a real gap, it's quite difficult to catch up but one weekend 🌠to the others that over the last four or five we꧑ekends it was a one time ahead in quali, one time McLaren, one time Mercedes but we are always behind Red Bull and at least on the race they have still a huge gap.
“To catch up, it'🥃s not that you are thinking about the Red Bull and ওto say well what we have to do, you have to work on yourself.
“It ﷽means that we are developing, we are developing in every single direction, we are trying to improve aero, suspension and whatever we can do.
“We are ꦅpushing like hellജ to do a better job but if you have a look, and this is crucial, with the bouncing and so, it's not when you are bringing upgrades that you are doing a huge step forward.
“We brought big things in Barcelona and we were potentially better the w🧸eek after.
“I think Alfa Romeo brought something two weeks ago and they did a very good job 𝕴this weekend, at least on quali.
“It means that the understandiꩲng of the upgrade is also crucial and it's not just about a package on a package.”
Vasseur denied that Leclerc, who later explained having issues with Ferrari’s team radio, became overly emotional in his mid-race comm♐unications.
“No, no, he was not emotional at all,”൲ Vasseur said. “List𒈔en to Gasly and Ocon!
“Fi🍸rst we were not able to understand what did he say because he had an issue🔜 with the microphone.
“I don't know if you hearꦯd but I don't think that you were able to understand perfectly. And he was not emotional, he was wo🍌rried about the pace and so.
“I spent the last 35 years or something l♛ike this of my life on the pitwall and everyꦜ single Monday of my career you have to do the list and you have a long list of mistakes, sometimes you can see it sometimes not.
“But the job of the team pri༒ncipal is to do the list with thꦚe team members and to fix it.
“And I'm very open with you to say that we are doing too many mistakes, but I think it's true if you ask the question to Toto, it will be approximately on t🤪he sa🌃me line as me.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade cov🐽ering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
