Charles Leclerc wanted to do a one-stop strategy during the Canadian Grand Prix. However, Ferrari put him on a two-stop strategy. After the race, Frederic Vasseur explained why they did this. About the radio messages, Vasseur said, “They are a bit vocal and I discussed with Charles after the race that where he's right is that we have not that much to lose when you are behind the pack and we can take some risk but it was for us a bit too optimistic to do one stop of 50 laps with the hards in terms of life, first, before performance and we were missing probably also some laps during the weekend to estimate it.”
Ferrari made too many mistakes
When asked where Vasseur felt they were competitively, he said, “The analysis is the good one that showed by moment that we were into the pace that the lap of Charles is purple sector one.”
“It was the weak point all over the weekend, and the last lap he was purple sector one. I don't want to say that we would have done the pole position, but at least we would have been in a good shape.“
Vasseur continued, “We made too many mistakes collectively from the beginning with the crash in FP1, with the mistake in Quali, with the marmot in the race and at the end, the fight is so tight I'm not speaking about lap time or race time I'm speaking about you can change the position for almost nothing from one weekend to another one that if you don't do the perfect weekend you are dead.”
Ferrari have constantly placed inside the top 10 but often outside the top three.
“It's a good lesson also from Mercedes they were nowhere the last three weekends and they were able to have the two cars on the podium this weekend. I'm not sure that they changed completely the car, it's more than from the beginning of the weekend, from lap one on Friday morning they were there, they did a good job in the preparation and so on and honestly, this weekend that for different reasons that the focus was not always there.”
Ferrari finished fifth a sixth in the Canadian Grand Prix.