Carlos Sainz will have a tough ballot race this Sunday at F1 Canadian GP 2024. The Spaniard will start 12th after a day to forget for Ferrari, as his teammate Leclerc is 11th and the two red cars are left in Q3 in qualifying. All this, on a track where they come from Maranello They came with joy at the victory of Charles in Monaco and already confident Canada It should be a good opportunity to go for another victory and continue pushing for the World Cup. But there was a surprise and unexpected turn of events. At Ferrari they do not understand, since Free Practice 3, what is happening in their car.
“We were very slow,” said Leclerc in FP3. And in qualifying, things did not improve on a complex track with intermittent drops falling, without rain. Ferrari suffered in terms of balance, lack of grip and above all, according to Sainz, to warm the tires, something important in one lap in qualifying.
“Neither was it dramatic, we already knew from Free Practice 3 that both cars were struggling on this circuit, complaining about balance and grip in general. For some reason we don’t understand, the Ferraris didn’t well done on this track.said Sainz on ‘DAZN’.
“Maybe tire heating is one of the problems, that with a used tire, a new one, it doesn’t matter, it’s difficult for us to warm up”Carlos argued that despite this, he will soon enter Q3.
It was all wasted in the last corner, in the last chicane, before the ‘Wall of Champions’. The Spaniard lost a bit of his rear when accelerating into that final corner and avoided impact, but that cost him some key tenths that could have put him in the final fight. However, no matter what, his car couldn’t have done more had he made it into Q3.
“I could have lost two tenths with countersteering in the last lap, but the rain started and I took a risk in one lap because of the rain and the last corner was raining a bit, I paid for it. ,” Sainz concluded.
Very complicated race for Ferrari
The race also looks complicated for Ferrari. Leclerc starts 11th behind Sainz, 12th. In other events, the red car has a better race speed. But on this asphalt, Leclerc says there is a problem “of lack of rhythm.”
“We’ve been slow. We’ve been slow”, Charles repeated, making sure there was no rhythm in the red car. Of course, the Monegasque hopes that things will be better this Sunday. But from a very distant start, knowing that he and Carlos could both lose some important points in the fight for everyone in a general classification where Leclerc arrived in Canada just 31 points behind Verstappen, who will start in 1st 2.
Chance of Rain
However, Ferrari may choose to risk strategy in the hope that rain will change everything this Sunday if it appears in the race. The forecast indicates this. In Canada anything goes.
Source: La Verdad
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