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Was Fred\u00a0Vasseur playing with fire when he decided Ferrari should switch focus to 2026 as early as April last year? Perhaps so, but with the Scuderia unable to catch McLaren, the Frenchman made the rational and correct call, even if it didn’t necessarily go down well with the expectant Italian faithful\u00a0at the time.
Vasseur at least weathered that storm, but only on the basis that he and his …Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: Sports \u2013 Racing \u2013 Motorsports.com \u2013 F1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Was Fred\u00a0Vasseur playing with fire when he decided Ferrari should switch focus to 2026 as early as April last year? Perhaps so, but with the Scuderia unable to catch McLaren, the Frenchman made the rational and correct call, even if\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15256617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15256615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256615-team-report-card-ferrari.jpg",1200,799,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256615-team-report-card-ferrari-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256615-team-report-card-ferrari-620x413.jpg",620,413,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256615-team-report-card-ferrari-768x511.jpg",768,511,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256615-team-report-card-ferrari-940x626.jpg",940,626,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256615-team-report-card-ferrari.jpg",1200,799,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256615-team-report-card-ferrari.jpg",1200,799,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256615-team-report-card-ferrari-998x665.jpg",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256615-team-report-card-ferrari-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256615-team-report-card-ferrari.jpg",1200,799,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256615-team-report-card-ferrari-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256615-team-report-card-ferrari-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256615-team-report-card-ferrari-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256615-team-report-card-ferrari-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256615-team-report-card-ferrari-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256615-team-report-card-ferrari-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256615-team-report-card-ferrari-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"Racing<\/a>","tag_info":"Racing","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15256615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15256616,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256615\/revisions\/15256616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15256617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15256615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15256615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15256615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}