Vasseur arrived at Ferrari last winter to replace Mattia Binotto and while he arrived too late to have a significant effect on the 2023 car project, his reorganisation efforts did start showing promise across the second half of 2023.
While the team struggled to make big upgrades to its SF-23, partly due to chassis limitations, Vasseur says he instilled a more risk-oriented and aggressive approach at Maranello, which had a reputation for having a systemic fear of failure.
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The Frenchman felt that attitude yielded more lap time than the upgrades themselves.
"When you arrive in this group, you need to understand how the group is working before taking any action or decision," Vasseur said.
"The main topic for us and the biggest improvement we did the season was more on the approach and the mentality. I think that we took more risk, we were a bit more aggressive and this played a part.
"We have to be ambitious and not be scared of any incident or something like this, and I think we did a step on this."
Source: Autosport