Somehow 'play nice' doesn't feel like it will have any impact on either driver's mindset...
Having resolved Ferrari ’s troubles from technical to strategy to pit stops, Fred Vasseur is facing his biggest hurdle yet as a race-winning team boss.
That he won in Melbourne 16 days later only added to the fairytale fight-back story that was Carlos Sainz’s early 2024 chapters. Although he stated over the radio that he felt Sainz was “racing him harder than the others”, Leclerc kept his cool post-race as he spoke of his team-mate being aas there had been contact but, he added, “to be honest, I have crossed the line also myself in the past”.
It’s fun for team-mates to fight for position, and it’s thrilling for the fans if they do so in a wheel-to-wheel battle, but under no circumstances should they do anything to hurt the team’s bottom line. Leclerc and Sainz broke that rule one apiece in China. Vasseur will walk a very, very thin line when he does have that sitdown as on the one side of the garage he has the driver Ferrari have pinned their hopes on for the future, and on the other side there’s the driver whose 2024 championship is one huge audition for a 2025 race seat… thanks to a decision Vasseur at the very least played a part in back in January.
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