Ferrari F1 chief’s explosive rant on live TV forces Sky Sports to apologise

Ferrari F1 team principal Fred Vasseur shocked viewers as he dropped an X-rated outburst live on Sky Sports during an interview at the Monza Grand Prix.

Vasseur spoke to Sky following the third and final practise session, before qualifying began and all eyes turned to how the Prancing Horse fared in their own backyard.

But the Ferrari chief was unable to paint his usual laidback manner as he dropped expletives live on air as the pressure seemed to tell on the Frenchman.

Vasseur said: “It's quite emotional. I tried all week to calm everybody down and say, 'Guys, you can't score more points in Monza than somewhere else'.

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"But this is bulls***. When you arrive on Thursday morning at Monza with all the guys in red, you can feel it.

"You can feel the passion, the emotion. For us, we have to take it as a positive and get an extra push from this."

Vasseur’s slip of the tongue left Sky anchor Simon Lazenby smirking before he addressed the Ferrari chief’s rant, he said: "A quick apology for the language."

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But Vasseur was left with plenty to celebrate on Saturday afternoon as Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz pipped Max Verstappen to pole, whilst Charles Leclerc qualified in P3 in a dream start to Sunday’s GP.

Reflecting on Ferrari’s qualifying in what has largely been a miserable season for Ferrari, Vasseur said: “For sure it’s a great feeling, even if we know that most important is Sunday.

“But it’s a good milestone for us, a great achievement today and more than happy for Carlos because he’s had a very solid weekend from the first lap of FP1 and I think it’s probably where he picked up the confidence to do such a strong lap at the end of Q3.”

Pole at Monza is just the fourth of Sainz’s career with all of the previous three coming last year.

Sainz is also yet to finish on the podium this year with a P4 finish on the opening weekend of the season in Bahrain back in March his highest finish of the year to date.

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