F1: Fiasco for Red Bull, Ferrari jubilant!

Carlos Sainz and Ferrari have achieved the unthinkable since the start of these Formula 1 world championships: beating Red Bull and Max Verstappen. The Spaniard won his second race of his career after the British Grand Prix in 2022. Frédéric Vasseur, the director of Ferrari, could savor the victory

Red Bull is no longer invincible this season! After winning the first fourteen Grands Prix, Red Bull had to bend the knee in the face of the impressive management of Ferrari and of Carlos Sainz, imperturbable at the head of the race Singapore. Tears ran down the cheeks of Frédéric Vasseur, the French director of Ferrari, who spoke at the end of this historic Grand Prix.

“Carlos did an exceptional job all weekend”

Frédéric Vasseur, the director of Ferrari, was happy at the finish of the Grand Prix and after the victory of his driver, Carlos Sainz, as he showed in comments reported by nextgen-auto.com : « It’s sure that it’s an accomplishment, it’s a step and it’s very happy for the team. We had a difficult start, Monza was a first stage and we expected it a little, but here we didn’t expect it. Carlos did an exceptional job all weekend being super smart throughout the race, and handling the situation very well, and I’m very happy for him. Very strangely I wasn’t stressed, I had the impression that Carlos was in control from the start and that he wanted to keep Norris in the DRS so that Norris wouldn’t get overtaken. We had room to go faster and that was not in his interest. The whole race he was in this management and he did it wonderfully. »

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“We had a plan that was super clear, and it went wonderfully”

« We had a plan that was super clear, and it went wonderfully from the start, starting with Charles who started in softs and was second, explain Frédéric Vasseur. What bothered us a little was the safety car, we lost Charles second with the traffic in the pits. But otherwise it went according to our plan, we strangely knew that we shouldn’t attack any more than that, we had to keep the others grouped behind us, and they were super wise, super diligent, they didn’t try to to widen the gap and show that they were going faster than the others. What was needed was to win. »