“The summer break was good. I’ve been with family and friends, but we’re still in the middle of the F1 season and at the end you’re always trying to keep the switch on for the second part of the championship.”He said Carlos Sainz at the official FIA press conference before the Dutch GPin Zandvoort. The Spaniard has been enjoying the summer with his family and friends, but as those who know him well know, there isn’t a moment when he isn’t thinking about his next step in F1. And the next, is nothing but to continue to help Ferrari in a difficult year for those Maranello. In a fast car in a turn but still not replicating that speed in the race due to, among other things, greater tire wear, Carlos marked as the main goal for the second part of this course to continue to work to understand and correct the weak points of SF23 Thinking above all about creating a 2024 car without the same problems.
“You have to try to understand the car this year as much as possible and what we lack compared to Red Bull, which is the reference and how we can do to be faster, you have to work to get back the season and put everything that is being done ours. our part to put everything in place to face 2024 in the best conditions”he commented at the Zandvoort press conference.
“It’s no secret that we’ve lacked consistency in the car this year. It’s hard to predict the circuits where we will do well and where we won’t. In Hungary we expected to go well and in Spa we expected to go but the opposite happened. These are the things that we cannot predict well and the lack of understanding is what we focus on and will continue to focus on throughout the year,” he added, noting that a priori, the Zandvoort circuit should not be bad for Ferrari.
Doesn’t rule out any podium options
“Since the test in Bahrain there have been things that have prevented us from fully understanding the car. We have been testing things and brainstorming to put everything together for next season. We understand the main problem of car, but there are many other factors. The differences are small, especially when you are trying to beat Mercedes, Aston Martin and now also McLaren. The goal now is to stay as high as possible among the Manufacturers”, commented the man from Madrid, which does not rule out the option of a podium in the rest of the course, considering that Ferrari wants to continue progressing after making a small step in the final rounds, and that the second part of the seasons is the strong point of the man from Madrid.
“The good thing is that the car offers us a good chance in qualifying and we can be ahead compared to the race pace we have. If we do a good lap on Saturday, we can hold on and get a podium if we don’t have. Too many problems. We are focused on making the car good for the race to take advantage of the good pace after one lap”, he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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