Formula 1 Managing Director, Motorsport, Ross Brawn discusses the key talking points regarding Scuderia Ferrari’s difficult afternoon in the 2021 French Grand Prix, as the Maranello team finished outside the points at the Paul Ricard track:
“It was a surprise to see Ferrari struggle after their performances in the last two Grands Prix. Their speed in qualifying was decent and I honestly don’t know where that went in the race. They will have to go away and work out what they got wrong as it is out of kilter with their recent performance. It was a very strange result but I’m sure they’ll come back.” – the former Ferrari boss explained, in his usual post-race column for Formula1.com
“If you come back and say ‘sorry about that, we don’t know what happened, let’s see what happens at the next race’ it will certainly not be what they want to hear. My response would be to say to staff ‘give us a few days to work out what happened, we’ll regroup, try and give an insight into what the conclusions are and what we’re going to do about it’. It’s the first of a triple header, so there are another two races on the bounce, and that makes it tricky. Most teams are experienced in having the odd really poor weekend. I expect Ferrari’s engineers to quietly sit down, work out why there was this loss and help the team understand it to keep morale up.” – Formula 1 Managing Director Ross Brawn concluded.
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