Fred Vasseur has confirmed that Ferrari was forced to raise the ride height of its F1 2025 car after Lewis Hamilton’s disqualification at the Chinese Grand Prix.

And he has admitted that the team “lost our way a bit” at the start of the season as it struggled with “quality issues” and execution on race weekends.

Fred Vasseur: Ferrari ‘lost out way a bit’ after Lewis Hamilton DSQ

After falling just 14 points short of champions McLaren in the 2024 Constructors’ title fight, Ferrari took the unusual step of changing its car concept for the final year of the current rules in F1 2025.

It emerged during the season-opening Australian Grand Prix weekend that Ferrari had been ‘shipwrecked’ by a fundamental issue with the car’s floor running too close to the ground.

Ferrari was caught out b

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