Ferrari’s mistakes on Sainz started to accumulate

Carlos Sainz he was again affected by another Ferrari error in the pits. Since the Spanish driver joined the Italian team, it was a problem that was repeated on too many occasions and which cost the Spaniard too many points. It happened again yesterday Dutch F1 GPin Zandvoort. A terrible first pit stop, 12.7 seconds (10 seconds more than normal) removed the Spaniard from the fight for the podium and ruined his race.

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This time, the problem was that the Spanish tires were not ready for the mechanic. The group it should be looked at, but at first Carlos Sainz believed it was due to a late call to the pits, which prevented his mechanics from reaching his pit lane location with the tires ready in time. The result, a disaster: The front tires came by the hairs and the mechanic who had to find the left rear tire, when he turned to look for the spare, his mouth opened in surprise to see that the tire was gone.

Most bad stops of the year: France and Hungary

But this is not the first time Carlos Sainz His team’s bad stopping is hurting him. Apart from the pit stops which are a bit slower than usual in many cases, we should highlight the slower stops which cost places and points in the race.

happened in the past French GP, with Carlos Sainz making a big comeback starting at the back to change his power unit. He would take advantage of a safety car to put on the medium tire and continue his comeback, but a bad stop cost him dearly, with a dangerous start in which he was allowed 5 seconds. “Without that bad stop, I would have made the podium”, He said. In addition, they called him back to the pits a second time and Sainz was not convinced by that approach, although Ferrari assured him that without that pit stop he would not have made it to the end. “The team has more data,” he commented, avoiding any misunderstanding.

After this, Another failure came at the F1 Hungarian GP, in this case, double. The team didn’t make a mistake with a stop, if not two. “The first pitstop cost us, like the second, an hour in the race, which is something that needs to be studied, but, apart from that, there is no rhythm today,” said the Spaniard. And after the holidays, came the colossal failure of Zandvoort.

other setbacks

To all this, we must add the many mistakes made by Ferrari in Leclerc and also Carlos Sainz in other aspects, such as the engine caught fire in Austria when he easily finished second, something that caused him not to use the new (more powerful) engine coming in Spa and you might have to ride Monzain the home race, having to start from behind against the tifosi in the most important race of the year for Ferrari due to the massive accumulation of kilometers of its current power unit.

We must also add the two approaches that Carlos Sainz had to stop on the radio for being wrong, in Monaco and Silverstone. If he followed them, he lost more points.

Sainz already warned him in 2021

Ferrari’s stoppage of failures earned him many points in his first year with the Italian team, in 2021.

In Great Britaina gun mechanism problem in his pit stop caused him to lose positions. In Turkey, Sainz’s big comeback from the back of the grid was slowed by a pit stop problem. After the Turkish race, he said it could have been “5th or 6th”, but that “it’s not the day to blame the team for anything” after finishing 8th with great feelings.

There, Binotto said the stop was “completed with normal timing” but there was a problem with the manual system for signaling the end of the procedure that allowed the traffic lights to turn green.

But two weeks later, in Austin, another very slow pit stop left him again without the possibility of securing fifth position, eventually ending in the 7th. The mechanics wasted no time getting the right rear tire out. 3 errors warned by Sainz this 2022.

“We have to study it and keep improving as a team, because we don’t agree with this situation. There were many pit stops that we worked on. Second in a row for me and third all year, so many points lost in the standings. We need to work as a team to improve because those are points. This year may not be so important, but if we want to fight for titles in the future, these are the things that must be done in a good way,” he commented in 2021. He is right Carlos Sainzthis kind of thing, like the techniques, the reliability of the car and the evolution of the car throughout the year are key aspects to qualify for the title.

Ferrari failed on many occasions. Meanwhile, Red Bull is rarely wrong, running perfect races, responding in time to its initial reliability issues and further developing the car. Therefore, Red Bull will be champion with Verstappen. Sainz needs to improve on many things if he wants to be champion. Just having a fast car and two drivers who can win is not enough.