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F1 Beyond The Grid

30 Days of BTG – Day 14: Fred Vasseur, Ferrari’s new boss

F1 Beyond The Grid

karenellenbevan

News, Leisure, Sports News, Sports, Automotive

4.75.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

14 seasons without a championship. Fred Vasseur needs to end that run. Ferrari’s new Team Principal has been working in elite motorsport for decades. A supreme talent-spotter, Vasseur hired Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc and many more for his teams in junior formulas. Back in 2020, when he was Team Principal at Alfa Romeo, he told Tom Clarkson about working with a young Leclerc and his life outside racing.

For the inside line on Ferrari’s new boss, listen to the full BTG interview here 

Follow F1 on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and Facebook for all the pictures, video and news from Ferrari’s 2023 launch on Tuesday February 14th.

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14 is a significant number for Ferrari. That's how many seasons F1's most successful team has

0:40.8

now gone without a championship. They fought hard in 2022, but Max Verstappen and Red Bull

0:46.5

were just too strong. 2008's Constructors Championship victory feels like a long time ago.

0:53.6

So on day 14 of Beyond the Grids preseason podcast,

0:56.9

Shakedown, let's hear from the man hired to end that drought. The new Ferrari team principal,

1:02.5

Fred Vassar. Fred is new to Ferrari, but he's been in Formula One and top level motorsport

1:08.2

for decades. He ran teams in junior categories which helped loads of young drivers make it to

1:13.4

Formula One, including Louis Hamilton and Charlotte Claire. And when Fred came on the show in 2020,

1:19.5

he remembered working with a young Charles. Charles is the only one that I followed from the

1:25.5

go kart to the F1. Does he have that self-critical nature? Yeah and on this case it was far too much.

1:35.0

Too much. Yeah, with Charles very often I have to ask him to calm down on this to avoid to

1:41.2

say in the radio, I'm stupid, I don't know what's stupid, I did shit, I'm bar-bar-bar, and say okay,

1:49.1

that you can share this kind of feeling with the teams, but take out outside because with the

1:55.9

social media and so that you never show about the next step and it's not under control. And so

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