Ferrari’s Fred Vasseur has been credited for his race-winning pitstop strategy at last weekend’s 🍎F1 Italian Grand Prix.

Charles Leclerc was five seconds behind rac๊e leader Oscar Piastri when the McLaren driver pitted for the second time.

Ferrari opt🍨ed to leave Leclerc on a one-stop strategy which resulted in a sensational win in front of the Tifosi at their home grand prix.

“That wou✨ld certainly be Fred’s influence,” Nico Rosberg told the Sky F1 podcast about the intervention which aided Leclerc.

“Fred is a racer. He doesn’t need ♛to♏ follow what a computer is telling him, he goes by feel, and what he sees.

“It’s a nice contrast to some of those nerdy engineers in front of their๊ screens who someti꧒mes forget to look outside at what’s really happening!

“Also, it was a big decision tಞo make because there was a less than 50% chance that they would get the win by doing th♔at.

“It was rolling the dice, looking at the odds, ൲saꦓying ‘we are in Monza, there is a 35-40% if we do this…’”

Ferrari 'outsider's shot' at F1 title

Ferrari have won three grands prix this season, after C💜arlos Sainz won in Singapore in late-2023.

Sainz won ag♛ain in Australia this year, before Leclerc won his home race in Monaco for the first time.

Leclerc’s victory in Monzaꦍ last weekend was another hugely emotional result for the Italian manufacturer.

“You can’t take away from Charles, that he𝓡’s🐟 now finally got that maiden win at Monaco, and the team won at Monza,” Natalie Pinkham said.

“They want them more consistently. The biggest pro🦂blem they’ve had is ebbing and flowing through the season, not understanding the car.

“They have said ‘we don’t understand’ even when the car is quick, they don’t understand where th🦂e pace is coming from🅷. That has been niggling at them.

“They are꧅ evocative images that will reall🔯y pull the team together for 2025 and beyond.”

Ferrari find themselves 39 points behind leaders Red Bull in the constructors’ c𝕴hampionship.

Rosberg insists they should have hope of winning it: “Yes of course it could h𝄹appen.

“With the form they have, they are not the favourites. McLaren, b༺y far, are the favourites.

“It depends on Ferrari’s upgrade. It looked good but Monza is an outlier. Is it going to look good a🃏t other places?

“If it is working so🌱 well, they will have an outsider’s shot at the constructors'.”

Leclerc urged caution after winning the Italian Grand Prix about the significant upgrade package which was designedཧ to cure Ferrari’s bouncing.