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Nico Rosberg thinks that the weekend of the Ferrari Canadian Grand Prix has summed up their disappointing season so far.
Ferrari Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton’s pilots finished fifth and sixth in Montreal respectively while the team returned to the third in the manufacturers’ championship behind Mercedes, who said an impressive result.
There were again sporadic flacrators of strong speed of Ferrari SF -25, in particular Leclerc – but the Mongasque missed the whole second training on Friday after having crashed during the first session of the day, then made a mistake in its last qualification round just after having established the fastest sectoral step.
Hamilton’s Sunday, on the other hand, was compromised after his car suffered damage when he hit a marmot in the 13th round.
Reflecting on the frustrating weekend of Scuderia during the last edition of The F1 showThe 2016 world champion Rosberg said: “We must remember that Charles Leclerc was sometimes fast in the race.
“He was very fast; he followed the McLarens very well. He was fast in qualification. Some say he could have been the top three in qualification, just up with the others.
“I think they also made a bad choice of tires in qualifying (by not operating the average tire in Q3).
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“So, a lot of strategy errors there because then in the race, they stopped Lewis in a pile of traffic who lost a lot of racing time.
“They also had a free opportunity to try and a counter with Charles. It was a free opportunity but they did not try to do so.
“Behind there was only Lewis and a lot of space, there was just no one there, and they could have gained a shot and have left it on this first pass in the first place because it was going strong and they just pulled it early. It was also a little bored on this subject because it wanted to stay longer.”
Rosberg added: “It was a bit of clumsy weekend from Ferrari.
“Then, also bad luck with the groundhog. So everything came together, which is not good.
“It’s like the story of their year so far, isn’t it? It just continues like that, it’s difficult for them.”
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Highlights of the Canadian Grand Prix of the Gilles-Villeneuve circuit, Montreal.
Vasseur on Ferrari’s errors and a “good Mercedes lesson”
The triumph of Mercedes in Montreal means that Ferrari is now the only one of the four major F1 teams without a Grand Prix victory that is approaching the brand halfway through the 24-races season, with three podiums for Leclerc their best results from Sunday so far.
The boss of the Frederic Vasseur team – who entered the weekend under the spotlight after Reports in eminent sections of the Italian media claiming that his position was threatened – Admitted that they simply “made too many mistakes” to finish higher.
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Fred Vasseur says he is “super calm” in the middle of speculation that he could be replaced as director of the Ferrari team at the end of the season.
But he said that the sudden return of Mercedes to the front showed them what was possible to achieve.
“We have shown moments when we were on the pace,” he said.
“I think that we have made too many errors collectively from the start, with the accident in FP1, the error in Qualy, with the Marmot in the race. In the end, the fight is so tight, that you can change the position for almost nothing from a weekend to another.
“It’s a good Mercedes lesson. They were nowhere the last three weekends and they were able to have two cars on the podium this weekend.
“I’m not sure they have completely changed the car, it’s more than since the start of the weekend, the first round on Friday morning, they were there. They did a good job with the preparation. This weekend, for various reasons, the accent was not always there.”
Insist on the “main problem is to make a good use of tires” in order to achieve a solid result for a given weekend, Vasseur added: “If we want to realize, if we want to start the first lines and have a clean weekend, like (en) Monaco, we have to do a very fluid weekend in terms of execution and my stranded in Canada,”
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Lewis Hamilton was devastated when he discovered that he had hit a groundhog during the Canadian Grand Prix race.
And on their decision not to continue a one-looking strategy with Leclerc, Vasseur said: “I chatted with Charles after the race. Where he is right is that we were not much to lose when you are behind the pack and we can take risks, but it was, for us, a little too optimistic to make a 50 laps passage with the hard (tire) in terms of life before performance.
“We were also missing tricks during the weekend to estimate it.”
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