One-lap type shall be particularly vital in Baku because the dash occasion could have its personal qualifying session on Saturday, so drivers and groups should get it proper twice.
Ferrari had the second-fastest automotive over one lap in each Bahrain and Saudi Arabia behind Pink Bull, but it surely stumbled in Australia, the place each Mercedes and Aston Martin have been forward.
Vasseur says that the crew has to focus on optimising its personal efficiency and never be distracted by rivals.
“To be targeted on Pink Bull or Mercedes or Aston Martin, I believe it will be a mistake,” mentioned the Frenchman.
“We have now to get the very best from what we’re doing, and to be targeted on ourselves. However we made a great step for me between race two and race three.
“And if we’re capable of deliver a few updates… I believe the difficulty in Melbourne was not the potential of the automotive, it was extra the job that we did as a crew to extract the very best from this, and that we now have to be targeted on this.
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari SF-23
Picture by: Ferrari
“Baku shall be essential, as a result of in Baku you’ve got the 2 qualifyings and the 2 races and we now have to find a way as a crew to do a greater job and to draw the very best potential of the automotive.
“Then the structure of the observe in Baku is totally completely different. However most vital is to get the very best from what we’re doing, and to be targeted on ourselves not on the others.”
Vasseur acknowledged that the difficult avenue venue shouldn’t be a simple observe to get proper, however he stays hopeful that latest modifications to the SF-23 can pay dividends.
“I’ll by no means say what we did on the automotive and what was the impression on the behaviour of the automotive,” he mentioned.
“However for positive we’re in search of one thing a bit extra constant. And I believe that we achieved it.
“I need to have the affirmation in Baku that we’re in a special scenario. Baku fairly often is an excessive observe, as a result of it is windy, and between the buildings the wind is altering utterly course from nook to nook. And it will likely be a great train for everyone.
“However I believe we took the suitable course in Melbourne, and we now have to substantiate it subsequent race.”