Fred Vasseur sat down with Motorsport.com to explain what's behind Ferrari's head-turning 2026 challenger—the exhaust vane, the rotating "Macarena" rear wing, the whole package that's had Red Bull and McLaren scrambling to catch up. It's not luck. It's a deliberate cultural shift Vasseur has been driving since he arrived in 2023: kill the blame culture, take more risks, stop following the pack.
The cost cap makes bold bets expensive when they flop, but Vasseur argues the team will sharpen its risk assessment the more it practices making aggressive calls. Sometimes you nail strategy like Barcelona, sometimes you don't—but you're the same people on the pitwall either way. The goal is to keep engineers feeling supported enough to innovate rather than play it safe.
Ferrari's leading on aero ideas for now. Whether that edge holds when rivals copy their homework depends on how deep the culture change runs.
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