Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has declared the pecking order at the season-opening round from Australia will not be the true picture of how the grid ends the season.<\/p>\n
F1 will undergo a major regulation change next year as changes are made to both the aerodynamic and power units.<\/p>\n
With teams busy putting the final bits in place ahead of their on-track debut, there is likely to be a lot of undiscovered pace in the cars.<\/p>\n
Through an intense development programme at the start of a new regulation cycle, Vasseur expects the order to change as the season progresses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt won’t be about the first picture of the season,\u201d Vasseur told media including RacingNews365.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt won’t be all about the classification of Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be a lot about development and capacity of quick development in that season.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt won\u2019t be over in Australia. It doesn\u2019t matter if we are P1 or P10, it will be a long way until the end. It will be a long way for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ferrari is hoping the sport’s new rules will see it make a step up the order and challenge at the front following a disappointing 2025 season.<\/p>\n
But Vasseur asserted the dramatic scale of the changes leaves it impossible to predict where it will stack up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no clue,\u201d\u00a0he said. \u201cYou know perfectly that all sport is a comparison.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI can do a good job, if someone did a better job, I look stupid. And that means that we are focused on a project.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are developing the project, we are pushing at the limit, and we are trying to do the best.<\/p>\n
For sure, the more time you are spending on the project, the better it will be.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I don\u2019t know if McLaren, Red Bull or Alpine is in front of us. This, nobody knows.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe most important [thing] is not to spend time to try to understand if the others are in front or behind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has declared the pecking order at the season-opening round from Australia will not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-365640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-calendar","13":"tag-f1-live","14":"tag-f1-results","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-ferrari","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-lewis-hamilton","20":"tag-max-verstappen","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}