‘If he’s trying to put pressure’ - Ferrari boss shrugs off Fernando Alonso’s claim

Fred Vasseur has responded to Fernando Alonso's bold prediction about Ferrari's F1 prosp🧸ects.

Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso

Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has responded to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso’s claim about the team’s prospects for the upcoming F1 races.

Speaking after the Dutch Grand Prix, the Aston Martin driver made a168澳洲5最新开奖结果: bold prediction that Ferrari would be the team to beat at the Italian Grand Prix - their home race - and the upcoming Singapore Grand 𝓡Prix.

Fe🌠rrari have lost ground to Red Bull since the start of the season and appear to have been overtaken by McLaren and Mercedes 🧸in the competitive order. 

The Italian outfit claimed an unexpected podium at Zandvoort, having recovered well from a dire qualifying performance, with168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Charles Leclerc ending up a second off the pace in sixth and168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Carlos Sainz dumped out in Q2.

Alonso claimed Ferrari “will be the favourites” in two ♊of the next three races.

“I think the top four teams, maybe Mercedes, are a little bit up and down, 𒀰but McLaren, Red Bull and Ferrari, they are podium contenders every weekend,” he said.

“The next two races 🗹[n♛ot including Baku], for example, Ferrari should be the car to beat. What we saw last year in Monza and Singapore, Leclerc's win in Monaco this year, for Singapore, I think they will be the favourites.”

Ferrari team principal Vasseur was asked about Alonso’s comments b🀅ut was quicꦏk to downplay any suggestions that his team are favourites.

Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur
Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur

ꦗ“If he’s trying to put pressure,🦩 he has to be sure that I won’t read the Twitter of Fernando Alonso,” Vasseur said.

“I don’t have Twitter, but I don’t ൲need to have someone telling me t🐈hat we are the favourite or not.

“We will have exactly the same approach in any case. I hope that we will be in a betteꦏr shape in the next two or three events.

“We were in a much better shape last year on these 🥂tracks.

“Again, it’s a matter of details. The fact that we are in a better shape on the short corn꧒er will help us. If we are able to do a step of one or two tenths, it’s a game changer.

“We know also thܫat everybody is improving. We know also that today we had still a big gap with Lando and that we were quite far away. It means that we have a lot of work to do.

“I will never goꩲ to Monza, Baku or whatever with the feeling t🅠hat it will be an easy one.”

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