Carlos Sainz will start 5th in the sprint race this Saturday morning with a Ferrari that both he and the team expected him to be faster at Red Bull Ring, at the Austrian F1 GP. As happened in Barcelona, Carlos and Ferrari They can’t come close to speed in a turn Max Verstappen, author of the pole sprint, and Norris and the Spaniard finished 4 tenths behind the Dutchman. The Ferrari must continue to improve and seemed to suffer more than it should have in the last two corners of the Austrian track, inconsistent with its times in that final sector.
Ferrari, who presented a new evolutionary package in Barcelona, has been struggling to find all the potential they believe they have in these new parts, something that is difficult to understand in the middle of a racing triplet, without a break for in the required study at the factory. So this Friday, they are once again far from the best.
“Today was not the best afternoon. In terms of sensations, the SQ1 and SQ2 were quite good on the medium tyre. Then, on the soft tyre, I think we saw a bit of our weaknesses in the SQ3 and we finished the fifth.”the Spaniard commented in a statement.
“The same as in FP1, when we were fourth. Unfortunately, at the moment we’re pretty much there.”the Madrid native argued in front of the microphone of the official F1 television.
Will try to improve on Saturday’s classification
however, Carlos is optimistic about having a good sprint racewith options to gain a position in the short event due to the good racing speed of his car on a track where it is possible to overtake.
“We’ll see, I hope I can be a little ahead. I’m starting 5th, from the clean side and we’re going to go for it, trying to get the most points tomorrow.”argument.
In addition, he hopes to fine-tune his car’s settings to be more competitive in the long qualifying session on Saturday afternoon, which will organize the grid for Sunday’s final race: “We still have time to fix a few things here and there for Saturday. We will try to qualify for Sunday’s race.”.
Source: La Verdad
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