Frederic Vasseur needs “time” to settle into his new job as Ferrari team boss. “I had my first contact with him as a Ferrari driver yesterday. “Whenever a new person joins the team there is extra motivation to do well and the team will try to take another step forward. “He will need time to see what changes the team needs, but I have heard very good things about him and I know him personally because he wanted to sign me to go to Renault. Already, however, F1 insiders are predicting trouble ahead for Ferrari’s latest team boss. “Alfa Romeo had a number of bad years and he managed to pull the team out of that to some degree,” he told formel1.de.

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