Carlos Sainz He is showing great form. The Spanish driver has just finished good races, with two consecutive pole positions, a difficult podium monza and an agonizing victory which was greatly applauded by all within Singapore. But in Japan, the Spaniard came back to the reality that this is his car this year. Ferrari has made important steps forward, but is still far from a Red Bull anywhere Suzuki crushed again. Carlos is clearly the current domain of red bull This is more a credit to energy drinks than a demerit to their pursuers. And while that dominance may continue for years to come, Carlos has once again come out in defense of the factory. Maranello highlighting that “if anyone can react” and hunt down Red Bull next year, “that Ferrari.” This is what Carlos Sainz himself said in a relaxed meeting with Estrella Galicia 0.0 media held in Madrid this Monday.
“I am always optimistic before the season starts. I was also optimistic last year and we stumbled. You have to be. I think that if you look at the last two years, the only one we have been able to stand up to Red Bull a little We were Ferrari, in the first half of last year (2022) and now we have this victory in Singapore and the podium in Monza. With these new regulations, Red Bull is unbeatable, but if there’s anyone who can beat Red Bull every now and then, it’s us. “I think I’m in the best place to try again next year but there are still 6 races left and we still have to focus on what we can improve to arrive prepared,” he commented.
“We know exactly what we are missing. We understand and have identified it. Another is the reaction capacity that we have to put everything in the car from race 1 next year. I believe that if there is someone capable do it “It’s Ferrari. Especially if we have clear goals and know which direction to go, if there is any team with the capacity to react, as seen in the past, it is Ferrari. Time will tell,” he declared.
“I saw the team working hard this year to turn things around. We’ve improved the car a bit throughout the year after a bad surprise at the start. And the truth is for me it’s more Red Bull Without the Red Bull, Ferrari will have a pretty decent year and we’re talking about one of the most even and fun years in F1, with Aston Martin, McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes all on a similar level, and suddenly someone is ahead for half a second, he said.
Renewal
“The future will be decided or I will try to get it decided in winter. You already know what my priority is in the short, medium and long term. And I hope we can figure it out in winter.”
“We haven’t sat down yet. It’s not a question of me not wanting to renew or… it’s just that there is no time. We travel all day and we race by race all day and now it’s Ferrari’s and my priority. is to finish the race . season as long as possible and you won’t be bothered by a contract that has four months in the winter to sit down calmly and talk about it. It’s a question of time.”
Negotiate after your success
“If you’re in a good moment in your sports career, it’s always easier to negotiate. But I don’t think that the last few races have changed the view that Ferrari has of me and that I have of Ferrari. We both know the ability and potential that we have and my intentions in the winter will be like winning in Singapore.
All eyes are on the car of 2024
“This is what everyone does after these races. Everyone has forgotten about this year’s car and focused on the next one. This is what we did as well. The final improvement was brought to Japan. Next year’s car has been decided that, in the wind tunnel and we are trying to improve. The only thing we can try this year is to try to continue improving and as you already saw in Japan, try to try set-up things. In Japan I had to sacrifice a little on Friday and he is being noticed in qualy for trying to find improvements. And we have to take advantage of the opportunities.”
Address on the car next year
“What a driver wants is a fast car. If the car is ready to take the pole, you don’t care how it goes. This year we analyzed what kind of corner, what kind of circuit and in what situation the weather is what the car is doing. not going. good and this is the ‘feedback’ that we drivers have given to the team to improve for next year and the team is very clear about this: we know where we have to improve car and I hope that a step forward will be made next year. Hopefully.”
Copy Red Bull?
“It’s one thing to copy the concept, and another thing is. When you have the same concept, who experiments more and who can do more. In this sense, it’s clear if we all go to the thing that that. direction, Red Bull will help us.” “He’s two years ahead. It’s hard to get to the level he’s at and that’s why he dominates so much. But time will tell. We have no choice but to focus on ourselves.”
Longest Red Bull dominance?
“Time will tell. I just don’t know. I don’t know how to answer. All I can do is be optimistic and think that a team like Ferrari has the capacity to do it, especially if it has been done of McLaren. and make such a move.” great, it shows you that it is possible to improve. But what McLaren also did was put itself on the first line (that is, second team after Red Bull). It’s still three or four tenths. behind Red Bull depending on the circuit and today. What is in McLaren, Aston Martin, Mercedes and us can be seen in the car we have where half a second they take us to some circuit. We know what we have to work on, what we have to improve and if that brings us to the level of Red Bull, well… hopefully”.
Goal for the end of the World Cup
“Finishing second (Ferrari) in the Constructors’ World Championship is the main goal, especially considering that we managed to reduce the points on Mercedes in the last races and I think for the team it will be a good addition motivation for the team. next year. On a personal level, get positive results, continue where I am, get the most out of the car, and then, above all, if the opportunity comes to make another podium or achieve a victory, here to do it. But with this car we don’t know if it will come or not.”
Third place in the drivers’ World Championship?
It will require both Hamilton and Fernando (Alonso) to have some zeros between now and the end of the season and I don’t see the two world champions doing many zeros with the experience they have (laughs).
Any circuit to take advantage of a Red Bull mistake?
“The big unknown is Las Vegas, what type of circuit it will be. It seems urban, with a lot of straight, Monza type. Because of the unknown, I hope it is that one. The rest of the circuits, based on the year… in Mexico we suffer, in “Austin should do a little better for us, but for example, Qatar, I tell you, it will be tough.”
The difficulty of driving the 2023 Ferrari
“There are always going to be cars in a driver’s career that you get into and go fast immediately and others that you have to adapt to. I wasn’t comfortable last year and I’m not comfortable this year, I’m not going to lie . It’s not a car that I enjoy driving. Maybe, thanks to the experience of last year I learned how I have to adapt and how I have to change my driving style or change things in the car that will help me to be fast. And that’s what I enjoy.center this year.
Differences between colleagues with the same car
“Cars are difficult to drive. That is why I think that on many weekends you also see teammates who from time to time, when in the other previous cars had a tenth, now are two, three tenths or half a second. They are very difficult to drive. difficult to understand and put in the window of their work. And having said that, I don’t think it’s happening with Ferrari. We are always close to each other. It doesn’t matter who is in front or behind and that is a very important asset for Ferrari.”to have two drivers who are always close to each other. We are two drivers who pushed each other a lot.”
About Verstappen
“It’s not just a car. It has a very competitive car that takes advantage of it. Maybe the big advantage that Red Bull and Max have is that they have a lot of margin. It’s that we’re not going to go the whole race in two or three seconds fighting for strategies. The only race without a margin, which was in Singapore, got the set up wrong, in Q2, the strategy, and suddenly they lose. Why? That’s how competitive sport works. When you at a very high level and you have a lot of margin, the probability of making a mistake is very small. If you manage to put a team and a driver under a little bit of pressure and lose that advantage, it suddenly loses. That’s what we have to take care of: that next time that we are close, let’s make the most of it.”
Source: La Verdad
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