Ferrari just fell short of challenging for a Formula 1 win on home soil, but team boss Fred Vasseur is smelling blood as the gap to Red Bull shrinks.
Charles Leclerc took a popular podium at Imola, with Carlos Sainz in fifth, as Ferrari was beaten by McLaren as F1's closest challenger to Red Bull's Max Verstappen. With overtaking nearly impossible on similar tyre strategies, Ferrari feels it effectively lost the battle for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in qualifying, with Vasseur saying: 'I think that if we do 1-2 in qualifying, we do 1-2 in the race.
'It means that we'll have to speed up the time to market, it will be crucial. 'But we also have to pay attention that we are now chasing the last hundredths. It's not anymore a five-tenth upgrade. 'It means that you also have to be sure that what you are bringing is working. It will be the key factor for the next couple of events.
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