Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has justified the recent intervention made by the team by clarifying his position, insisting it is a “big issue” that team harmony needs to be maintained.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
In recent weeks, Vasseur’s position at Ferrari became the topic of debate, with Christian Horner putting himself forward as a candidate for the role.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The former Red Bull boss declared that he would drop his condition of an ownership equity stake in a team for a return to F1 if it meant he was able to run the day-to-day operations of Ferrari.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
After the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Ferrari gathered select media to insist that it had full confidence in Vasseur.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Frenchman has detailed that it was necessary to do so in order to cancel the noise that was being generated.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“When you see the noise and all the rumours in the press all week, I think as a team, we need to work in serenity,” Vasseur told media including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“And it was absolutely not the case. The statement, it was mandatory to do something or it would have been the same this weekend.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“But honestly, the big issue that we have today is to [instil] stability, the serenity in the team, the focus that we need to have, and not to have these kind of questions all day.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Vasseur has had public support declared for him by Ferrari’s drivers Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
He also got backing from an unlikely source, as Williams team boss James Vowles jumped to his defence while sitting alongside Vasseur during the team representatives’ press conference in Malaysia.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Normally, we beat each other up and put knives in our backs,” Vowles said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“But Ferrari is in the best place it’s been in the championship for a while.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“They have innovation on the car this year with a rear wing and exhaust that we’ve all copied as a result of it.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It’s a team that’s doing brilliantly, so for me personally, there is no question that Fred is the right person to do this.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has justified the recent intervention made by the team by clarifying his position,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-914021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914021","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=914021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}