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Vasseur sets Ferrari qualifying challenge after Monza promise

Carlos Sainz topped both Free Practice 2 and 3 for the Scuderia on home soil at Monza.

Frederic Vasseur has challenged Ferrari to "put everything together" in Italian Grand Prix qualifying after impressing through practice. In the hands of Carlos Sainz, the SF-23 topped both the second and third practice sessions at Monza as the team has bounced back from a poor weekend at Zandvoort. The car has been good on high-speed tracks and in slow corners throughout the year, with Charles Leclerc taking pole position for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in April. After the promising practice sessions, Vasseur is now keen for the Scuderia to execute a clean qualifying hour.

Vasseur's Ferrari challenge

"We don't do the grid with [the times] from FP2 or FP3, we do the grid from qualifying," Vasseur told Sky Sports F1. "It is [in qualifying] that we have to put everything together. "So far, it has been good, the pace was okay and in the long stints [in practice], we did pretty well. "But it is so tight, and will be tight [in qualifying] that we can't be relaxed and have to be focused on trying to get the best [result] we can."

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