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F1: Vasseur underestimated the challenge Hamilton faced

After 20 years of being powered by Mercedes, Fred Vassuer admits that he underestimated the challenge facing Lewis Hamilton in switching to Ferrari. 'I personally underestimated the step,' admits the Frenchman. 'It's not that we are doing worse or better, it's that we are just doing differently. 'It's not just about the food or the weather,' he continues, 'it's that every single software is different, every single component is different, the people around him, they were different, and if you are not on the top of everything, you leave on the table a couple of hundredths of seconds, and today with the field that we have... I think it was in Abu Dhabi in Q2 that you had one tenth covering P5...
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