Ferrari, much to check and bring “small evolution to Australia”

“This is the harsh reality,” said Carlos Sainz after the F1 Saudi Arabian GP. “We lower too much, we use the tire too much and in the end you struggle in the race”, added the Spaniard to ‘DAZN F1’ after the race. Ferrari was in trouble, but his Team Principal, Frédéric Vasseur, called for “calm down”. He is confident that his team will understand the problems with his car and that prevent him from getting all the potential he shows every Saturday.

At the Italian factory, they hope to fight from the start against Red Bull with their SF23, a car that is an evolution of last year’s car and that was created with the main objective of maintaining its strengths from last year and eliminating its weaknesses are valid. .

The disappointment

Ferrari had to improve the engine and the power seemed to be greater, but its reliability affected them in Bahrain with the retirement of Leclerc which ultimately cost him the subsequent penalty in Jeddah for the installation of his third electronic control unit in just two races. Ferrari even mounted its second internal combustion engine (maximum of 3 for the whole year) in just two appointments, which is definitely not a good sign.

But above all, the pace of the race is concerned. Sainz was 6th and Leclerc 7th in Jeddah, with no options to do more. Ferrari lowered the tires further and that was seen in Bahrain. And in Jeddah, a circuit of low degradation and where Ferraro can bring out the improvement of his engine, the Italians are expected to fight for all Red Bull or just behind them. But it’s not like that. The Italians failed on a completely different type of track in Bahrain. And after that, your The Principal of the Team, Frédéric Vasseur, clarified in a press conference that the main problem was that they failed to “get the maximum potential of the car with all the compounds”.

“You have to maximize the whole weekend”

Vasseur chose to continue working, focused on improvement, without giving up his arms and wanted to highlight that “not everything has been bad”, clarifying that “we managed to take a step forward in the classification compared to in Aston Martin and Mercedes”, with a Leclerc 2nd in ‘qualy’.

“We’re going to bring some small evolutions to Australia”, expressed, but reiterated that the biggest improvement for them should come when they get to know the car: “We have to maximize the potential of the whole weekend. It didn’t happen. We haven’t got 100% out of the car. We have to focus on that.”citing mostly the inferior performance of his car with tires late in the race.

“Performance comes from our business, it’s not just something that’s good or bad. We have to continue to give our best in each of the performance areas and if we just look at the photo from this weekend, I think the car has good potential at the beginning but we are not there at the end.”he added.

“The pace was decent yesterday (Saturday) and we made a step forward, increasing the lead over Mercedes and Aston Martin (by one lap). In ‘qualifying’ Charles was faster than Aston Martin and Mercedes. In the race, Charles had a good comeback and Carlos’ rhythm was good in the first stint with the medium compared to the rest. We need to understand the main problem and the improvement we need to make is in managing the different types of (tyre) compounds at the weekend.he insists, without giving importance to the change of internal combustion engine in his two cars.

“Reliability? The problem was in Bahrain and it was unexpected because it was the first time we had such a problem. We replaced the engine as a precaution. But that engine will be back in the car soon,” he added.