Worried expressions were clear on Frédéric Vasseur’s face after the Las Vegas weekend: the budget cap has tight constraints, and the manhole incident that destroyed Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari on Friday doesn’t help. The Maranello’s team principal fiercely criticized the handling of the incident, contemplating discussions on possible “compensation.”
Scuderia Ferrari will seek a kind of damage compensation from the Grand Prix organizers: “There will be a private discussion that I will have with the parties involved.” There is a precedent, found in past seasons, specifically in 2017 when Haas reached a financial agreement with the organizers of the Malaysian GP, where Grosjean damaged his car in a similar incident to the Las Vegas FP1.
Fred Vasseur is also troubled by the strict rules of the budget cap. Now Ferrari will have to bring an additional spare chassis from Maranello to Abu Dhabi: “There are no provisions in the budget cap that exclude accidents. We will certainly have extra costs: the chassis was damaged, the gearbox was damaged, the battery was damaged, the engine is gone…”
The French manager admitted the hefty bill presented by the Las Vegas manhole. Moreover, in the discussion, he will bring up all the similar precedents: “The financial and sporting consequences are many. It’s not easy for spare parts and the budget.” – he pointed out at the end of the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Not only will Ferrari seek compensation, but Fred Vasseur also strongly criticized the stewards’ attitude during the Las Vegas FP1. For the Maranello boss, the time between the yellow and red flags is excessive.
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The marshals had noticed the manhole and had started waving. “We need to discuss it. Not just the manhole, but also the time between the yellow and red flags. It means they saw something on the track and took a minute to show the red flag. It’s too much.”
“Did we receive reports of debris on the track? No, they didn’t tell us anything. We didn’t know the reason for the yellow flag.” – the Ferrari team principal concluded.
Source: f1ingenerale
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