{"id":32493,"date":"2025-09-08T05:17:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/vasseur-laments-elusive-podium-for-ferrari-at-monza-magical-for-the-fans\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T05:17:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:17:32","slug":"vasseur-laments-elusive-podium-for-ferrari-at-monza-magical-for-the-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/vasseur-laments-elusive-podium-for-ferrari-at-monza-magical-for-the-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Vasseur laments elusive podium for Ferrari at Monza: &#8220;Magical&#8221; for the fans"},"content":{"rendered":"The Ferrari team principal, Fred Vasseur, expressed his disappointment at not being able to offer a podium to the team&#8217;s fans at the Italian Grand Prix last Sunday.\n\nDespite showing a promising pace in practice at Monza, Charles Leclerc qualified and finished in fourth place in Ferrari&#8217;s home race. Lewis Hamilton, for his part, managed to move up from tenth position on the grid to sixth, despite a five-place penalty.\n\nLeclerc crossed the finish line four seconds behind McLaren&#8217;s Oscar Piastri, who took third place, but 25 seconds behind the race winner, Max Verstappen.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a shame today and I&#8217;m disappointed not to be able to offer a podium to the Tifosi, because when you see the fans on the starting and finishing line and on the podium, it would have been magical and they deserve it,&#8221; declared Vasseur.<\/p><cite>Fred Vasseur<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nVasseur also highlighted the closeness with McLaren:\n\n&#8220;But I think we are close to McLaren today. It&#8217;s probably the smallest gap of the season. I think Max was exceptional. From the first lap to the last, he was there, flying and was much faster than us. But overall, I think compared to Mercedes and McLaren, we did our job. It&#8217;s not enough, but we did our job.&#8221;\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0907%2Fr1542235_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\nVasseur emphasized that the margins were tight throughout the weekend, not just in practice.\n\n&#8220;I think we&#8217;re a tenth off the front row [of the grid] yesterday. Even if you play differently with engine modes, fuel and so on [in practice], we&#8217;re talking about 3-4 kilos of fuel, we never know this. But it&#8217;s also true that even in the race it&#8217;s the smallest gap with McLaren, it was also the smallest gap in FP3, the smallest gap in qualifying, in FP1, and I think we&#8217;re in better shape this weekend. It&#8217;s not enough because they&#8217;re ahead of us, but I think we at least shortened the gap this weekend.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ferrari team principal, Fred Vasseur, expressed his disappointment at not being able to offer a podium to the team&#8217;s fans at the Italian Grand Prix last Sunday. Despite showing a promising pace in practice at Monza, Charles Leclerc qualified and finished in fourth place in Ferrari&#8217;s home race. 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