“Packed Leclerc for 40 Laps”: Tifosi Refuses to Buy Into Frederic Vasseur’s Excuses After Charles’ Surprising Humilation in Miami
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Formula One F1 – Azerbaijan Grand Prix – Baku City Circuit, Baku, Azerbaijan – April 28, 2023 Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in the pit during practice REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
Team Ferrari is going through quite a topsy-turvy ride in the current season. For the first three races, they struggled badly and failed to land a podium finish. Then, Charles Leclerc took pole positions in both qualifying sessions- the separate ones for the main and sprint races in Baku. The Monegasque went on to take podium finishes in both of those races. The Miami GP brought back the bad luck with it as Leclerc first crashed in the qualifying, then failed to make any progress from his starting position in the race. Team principal Frederic Vasseur tried to make sense of the affairs post-race, but the Tifosi is having none of it.
The main race was never going to be an easy one for the Ferrari star. In his search for the pole position, he pushed too hard on a fast curvy section. The move, however, turned out to be counterproductive as the car went out of his control and crashed into the barriers. The incident caused the session to be red-flagged and that meant that he would start the race back in P7.
Frederic Vasseur slammed as Charles Leclerc suffers humiliation at the hands of an unlikely challenger
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Until the conclusion of the race, Haas was having a great time in Miami. Owing to the Q3 session getting abandoned after Leclerc’s crash, Kevin Magnussen secured P4 on the starting grid. However, as race progressed, the Dane kept falling down the pecking order. However, he proved to be quite the task for Leclerc to overcome. It was only when the race progressed to the final stages when the Monegasque started to make some progress down the grid.
Speaking on Ferrari’s struggles post-race, Vasseur said, “Today we were very inconsistent.”
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“In some stages the pace was good, in others we were very far behind.”
“We have to understand the reasons: it’s not about tyre degradation because in the end we found our pace.”
The Tifosi, however, had none of it, as the humiliation suffered at the hands of Magnussen was too much to handle. Take a look at how Ferrari fans reacted to Fred’s comments on Twitter.
K-Mag packed Leclerc for 40 laps lol https://t.co/eQT6FTAIgP
— Shobhit (@icemanbwoahh) May 7, 2023
What pace are you referring to? How can we claim to have pace when @Charles_Leclerc struggled to overtake Haas?
— Together (@HolaBoySho) May 7, 2023
they found the pace? man, where? 🤣 the Haas pilots and Lewis were faster than Charles. and no way they resolved the tire deg when both Carlos and Charles complained about it
— Cătălina (@catalinam36) May 7, 2023
Race 5/23 and finally we can say the problem is really the car oh god https://t.co/PmvYu8QPbW
— satellite (@lomldontleaveme) May 7, 2023
If that's not the floor, or track conditions, then what happened in Baku was pure Leclerc diff
— João Bosco (@joaoboscoliv) May 7, 2023
Vasseur, like always, put up a brave face for fans, pointing out the positives. However, this time his comments were not taken as well as he would have expected.
I find it really audacious from him to say that at some point the pace was good . When exactly, during the formation lap? ferrari were 1 sec off the pace of RB this race and some 0,6 behind AM.
— Razvan Florea (@Shorirazv) May 7, 2023
At this point we will be lucky if we can get a podium in the next one. Granted updates are coming but it will take a huge load of time to get this car performing as well as understanding the extent of the issues
— Tommy Han Min (@chanchaniceman) May 7, 2023
What’s going on with Tyre deg in Ferrari, this problem has been there for far too long already. Alpine managed to solve it and AM managed to do a fast car that’s gentle on his tyres
— A Casual Boi (@PeruanoCorrien1) May 7, 2023
mate I honestly don't know what this cars good at. Sometime we have pace to get within DRS, but have no straight line speed to overtake.
— Aj (@Ajjoseph2k16) May 7, 2023
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Problems after problems. I don’t know what went wrong in the making of the SF-23 😞
— SF Fanatic (@ItsJeromeBNNC) May 7, 2023
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F1 will now go for a one-week break before Ferrari go out to perform in front of their home crowd in Imola. Do you think they can bring in enough positive upgrades to save face at home? Or will it turn out to be another disappointing race weekend?
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