Vasseur pledges Ferrari won't be left behind in facility upgrade arms race

Frederic Vasseur has pledged that Ferrari will continue to upgradeits infrastructure facilities, despite already having class-leadingequipment. The Scuderia is hoping to mount a closer challenge toRed Bull in 2024 after slipping from second to third in the '23Constructors' as the SF-23 could not match its predecessor from2022. Many F1 teams are investing in upgrading facilities includingMcLaren with a new simulator and heavily upgraded wind-tunnel,which Red Bull has also committed to with its facility in Bicester.While the Ferrari boss feels his existing infrastructure is at agood level, he feels the team needs to continue to upgrade toshorten development times in the constant arms race. Ferrari'simprovement "The level of infrastructure and the equipment isokay," Vasseur told media including RacingNews365. "But it is anongoing process where you have to do a better job everywhere, wehave to improve the simulator, which is a good example. "It is ano-end story where as soon as you are fixing something in thesimulator, you have a new issue, and it will be like this for thenext 30 years, and it is the same scenario for the wind-tunnel."You always want to improve the flow or the scales and just becausethe facility in Maranello and Fiorano is the top of the top, doesnot mean that it is the end of investment. "We have to continue interms of production a lot because what is key is the time to marketand the fact that we have the capacity to produce quicker and dowith better quality. "And so we are in this loop, and will continueto invest, develop, but it is not just about the simulator or thewind-tunnel. "If we want to make a step forward, then it is alsoproduction."