Ferrari doesn't want to change the past, instead it seeks out golden nugget
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"Ferrari had their chance and blew it," a race win in a season dominated by another team doesn't come a-knocking twice", and more. The Scuderia's Hungarian GP, in light of Charles Leclerc's SF-25 issue came under fire. For Ferrari's boss Frederic Vasseur, however, it is simply a lesson in the potential his team has.
When faced with the times they'd lost pace in the season in an attempt to mitigate the skid plank's wear, and the possibility of this being the case again with Leclerc, Vasseur responded with authority to GPblog and others.
"Yeah, once we lost the pace [in those instances], we lost two or three tenths.
"Today we lost two seconds. A bit different," nuanced the Frenchman.
What, ever, then, was the issue with Leclerc's car?
After the race the Monegasque stated that the issue lied somewhere in the chassis. This led many to believe that Leclerc was referring to the skid plank wear problem Ferrari has been facing since the beginning of the year.
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George Russell and Charles Leclerc in Hungary
Answering to the enquiries, Vasseur was once again clear.
"When he says chassis it's because when I say chassis, it has nothing to do with power unit.
"Now we don't know exactly what's happened. We had the car still in parc fermé and it's a bit [of an] early stage [still]," stated Vasseur, unwilling to jump to any conclusions.
Vasseur believes in Ferrari's potential
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After the race, Leclerc believed Ferrari had squandered its sole chance to win a race in the 2025 season, a statement Vasseur himself corrected.
For the Frenchman, aside from the pain of the tough loss, lies also the revelation of Ferrari's potential to win.
"The good side of today is that it means that when we are putting everything together we are able to do the pole position and to lead the first 40 laps."
Then, everything is possible, Vasseur concludes. "If you are able to lead the first 40 laps you can go to the end."
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