MADRID — Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur says his team will head to this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid with "all the energy" needed to bounce back from what he describes as a "failure" at Monza.

There were huge expectations for Ferrari at their home event after Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc were quick in Friday practice, but the pair missed out on the front row in qualifying before a dismal race on Sunday. Ferrari scored just eight points as Hamilton and Leclerc went side by side at the first chicane — Hamilton running through the gravel at Turn 2 — before Leclerc suffered a huge crash on the third lap that wrecked the car and left the Monegasque with initial eye issues.

Hamilton was up to third at one point but lacked outright pace and finished sixth behind both Mercedes, Red Bull's Max Verstappen and both McLarens.

"We will come to Madrid with all the energy that we need to do a good result," said Vasseur. "It's true that Monza, for us, even if I spend the week to say that it's a normal race, it's not, as you can imagine. With all the Tifosi, we were expecting to give them something else as a big thank you for the support and the enthusiasm that they have. We all have the feeling to have failed something, but be sure that we will come back much stronger."

Missing pure power

Ferrari introduced their second and final engine upgrade of the season but were still slower than the Mercedes-powered cars on the straights. Straight-line speed has been Ferrari's biggest weakness — something that will not be an issue around the new, twisty Madrid circuit — and Vasseur admitted he was "not expecting" to close the power-unit deficit to Mercedes.

"When you have a lack of pure power, then you start to play with deployment, to try to compensate in the straight line," he said. "But if you deploy more somewhere, for sure you will deploy less somewhere else. Then you are going in the wrong spiral... In the end, we are missing pure power."

After the first ADUO (Additional Development and Upgrade Opportunities) review earlier this year, Ferrari were deemed to be more than four per cent behind benchmark engine manufacturer Red Bull, allowing the Scuderia two engine upgrades this year and also for 2027, when they will have a new engine.

"The process of the engine is mega long. The chassis you can make an upgrade from one day to the other very quickly and come back into the pace," said Vasseur. "On the engine, the process is mega long because the lead time of the parts is long... We are not expecting to recover with ADUO 1 or ADUO 2. We are doing small steps. If you make a small step on the engine, keep in mind that behind us, it was hundredths of a second... Now we will have a new engine next year. For sure, the target is to catch up as soon as possible."