‘More dangerous than nuclear weapons’: Despite Elon Musk’s alarming concerns, Frederic Vasseur is banking on a dangerous weapon to solve Ferrari’s woes

As the world continues to evolve in its data collection and use, artificial intelligence is the new force. Despite tech mogul Elon Musk’s instrumental warning, Ferrari’s Frederic Vasseur believes that AI will be the ultimate goal for data analysis and strategy when it comes to the future of Formula 1.

Despite so many positive aspects of artificial intelligence, Musk, one of Silicon Valley’s leading figures, has already warned the world of its potential danger. According to the New York Times, the American business tycoon warned that artificial intelligence “potentially more dangerous than nuclear weapons.”

However, the new Ferrari boss believes that AI will be the future when it comes to developing F1 strategy. Speaking to Racecar Engineering, Vasseur said: “The database for using artificial intelligence to implement the full race strategy is still pending, but the teams are on track to implement something soon.”

“You can imagine that eventually the software could have the information to take into account the track, conditions, number of pit stops, relative position between drivers and the possibility of an incident to give you the probability of a safety car to the next round, or something like that“ concluded the Scuderia Ferrari boss.

Why is Frederic Vasseur aware of Ferrari and their strategy?

Ferrari had a major challenger in 2022. The Italian team’s F1-75 looked to be the strongest contender for drivers’ and constructors’ championships at the start of last season. However, the title dream remained after the Maranello team were unable to maintain their momentum due to reliability and strategic issues.

Reliability issues aside, the Prancing Horse had several strategic errors in 2022. This was a sector where Red Bull Racing outdid them, winning races when they didn’t expect it, while Ferrari threw race after race.

Among many of these examples, the 2022 Monaco Grand Prix remained the prime example, with the Italian team calling both Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc to the pits together. Leclerc, who had been leading the race up until then, had to queue up behind his team-mate, thereby losing the lead and the win to Red Bull’s Sergio Perez.

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As the Maranello-based team prepares to overcome the deficits of 2022, strategy must be an important reason to take care of and for this Frederic Vasseur will rely on artificial intelligence for now and in the near future, apart from, that he points to Charles Leclerc’s game plan, which is crucial to Ferrari’s long-term triumph.