Ferrari suffered in Barcelona with the introduction of a new package in which they hope to join the battle with Verstappen, McLaren and a Mercedes present in Canada and Catalonia. But things did not go well. And a week later, the Italian team expected more in Austria. But again, they face the harsh reality. Ferrari is still far from Max and the orange cars, and although Sainz managed to be 4th in qualifying in the Mercedes, close to the podium, Carlos Sainz believes Piastri, who starts 7th because with an error, must pass him in the race. The Spaniard is focused on fighting Mercedes who he thinks are better, but above all, what the Madrid man, like Leclerc and the whole team, wants is answers.
Leclerc said before the Austrian GP that his car especially suffered in long slow corners like Turn 10. And when asked about fast corners like Turn 9, he denied it was a problem for his car . But the Austrian made it clear that the Ferrari also suffered greatly in the fast corners, and it lost time in the last two on the Austrian layout. And after that, Carlos Sainz confirmed the suspicions of the journalists and admitted that his car also suffered in the fast corners of Barcelona, a trend repeated in Austria.
In search of solutions: fast corner problems
Ferrari believes that the new evolution package has a lot of hidden potential that they have not been able to extract after its debut in Barcelona and, in that sense, it does not help that there are 3 consecutive races to find a solution to the balance of the car . Therefore, knowing they were far from pole, Ferrari chose to take a shortcut by working as a team with Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc: both chose to use two different settings on their cars in qualifying to remove doubts and see if they solve the problems. But it’s not like that.
“We are trying as a team to change the car a little bit to see if we can get rid of this phenomenon that is crushing us a bit here in the fast corners, here and in Barcelona, We tried to see if we could take it out a little. Maybe I was able to make the car fast, but I suffered a lot on the rebound and I had some big scares,” argued Sainz on ‘DAZN’.
“But still, when it counted I did a good lap that gave me the chance to get through the middle of Mercedes, who I think have a little bit more this weekend. But we’ll try to fight them this Sunday ,” he says. . a Carlos who does not see the podium as much as possible if Piastri and those above do not fail. And much less wins if something crazy doesn’t happen between Norris and Verstappen.
“Max is on another planet, unless things happen ahead between him and Lando, McLaren, even Piastri tomorrow in 70 laps, two stops… Oscar will pass us. But I think our battle is with Mercedes (for fourth place). position ) and if something happens at the front, then do it,” concluded Sainz.
Source: La Verdad
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