Vasseur’s priorities: “At the beginning the most important thing is reliability”

A decisive season Fred Vasseur seems to have very clear ideas. The Ferrari team principal, on the eve of a season that promises to be crucial not only for the Maranello team but also for him personally, explained to journalists – on the sidelines of the presentation of the new SF-26 on the track – the team’s priorities in this phase of the start of the new regulatory cycle. The French manager is convinced that, with so many regulatory changes introduced all at once, the first objective to be achieved is that of reliability. For this reason, at the end of the very short shakedown in Fiorano – according to the regulations there were just 15 km available to run the single-seater – Vasseur showed satisfaction above all for the absence of technical problems. Password: reliability “We postponed this very first day of presentation as much as possible to have time to develop the car – the red team principal explained to journalists – but we knew the calendar from the beginning. This means that it is a long-term process that we have decided to update in the next session. But I think that at the beginning the most important thing is reliability”. “The most important thing is that we managed to get to today without problems – claimed Vasseur, and the recent problems that will prevent the Williams from being on track in Barcelona seem to prove him right – and I think this is a good step forward for the tests in Catalonia. In Barcelona the objective will be to obtain maximum information on the car, maximum data – commented the Ferrari manager – and then we will start development from there too”.