Carlos Sainz clings to Ferrari reliability

The FIA ​​joined Lewis Hamilton, Nyck De Vries, Lando Norris, Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz in the same official press conference at Sakhir, but it was held during the lunch break and before all of them, except for De Vries , They debuted on the third and final day of testing in Bahrain, so the balance is a bit unclear, especially in the case of Carlos Sainz who was later disappointed with the result of the race simulation.

“So far, so good. We are having a good test in terms of reliability, we are doing all the tests we want to do. We have a good car but the most important thing is that we are having some good tests”.

“I’m happier with how the tests are going, I’m still able to test a lot and understand the direction to take for the future. Last year, I missed trying some things which compromised my first half of the season. Now everything is clearer. But the last tenth, until qualifying we will not know which side he is on”, said the Ferrari driver.

The goals remain ambitious: “Try to win more, be first and have more good chances. If it allows me to be in the fight for the title, I will be happy”.

Leclerc is finding the sweet spot at Ferrari

For his part, his teammate Charles Leclerc explained that “I think we have a car with less drag (resistance to advance), so it should be better this year, but it changed other characters at the same time. Everything is going more or less as we expected. , but we still need to find the right tuning for these new features.”

And he said he expects it “to be a little faster on the straights, but that might cost us a little bit of cornering performance” as a result of the design changes.

“In this three-day test, I can say that we are still working quite a bit on the track to find the sweet spot of the car in terms of set-up. Honestly, I hope that there is still a little margin: because I don’t ‘ t think we have found that sweet spot of the car. I’m talking about,” he concluded.