Interesting statistics from Frederic Vasseur

With fourteen rounds of the season behind us, it can’t be said that Ferrari fans have much to celebrate. However, there probably shouldn’t be any special reasons for the condition either – or so Frederic Wasser thinks.

Last year, at this stage of the season, the Scuderia was in the same 3rd place in the Constructors’ Championship as it is now, only then it was inferior to Red Bull Racing and Mercedes, and now McLaren is in second place.

Although Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc have already taken one win, the team clearly lacks consistency, Vasseur is nevertheless convinced that progress has been made compared to the previous season and the efforts of everyone working at Maranello are commendable, but the difficulties Of course there is more.

If you look at the statistics, the Scuderia’s top team is right: since the start of the season, they have earned 117 more points than in the same period last year. And it is clear that in 2024, there is no longer any clear dominance from Red Bull Racing, although the biggest concern for the championship team is not the Scuderia, but McLaren.

“I think we had a series of good races in the first half of the season where we had a few wins, but then McLaren came along and now Mercedes,” RacingNews365 quotes Vasseur. – I think all four of the top teams this year are at about the same level. It’s not often that four teams still have a chance of winning the championship after the first half of the season.

I’m not a big fan of statistics, but we scored 60% more points in this period than last year – or something like that. As a result, we closed the gap to Red Bull by 300 percent.”

Those who are strong in mathematics are invited to understand Vasseur’s logic themselves. A year ago, after 14 stages of the season, Red Bull had 583 points, Ferrari – 228. Now the picture is different: 408 versus 345. That is. in the first case the gap was 355 points, in the second case it was reduced to 63.