The return to Montreal since 2019 comes with a hot ‘Scuderia’ due to the double stop of Baku and Verstappen on the way
The Gilles Villeneuve circuit is once again shaking with action. Three years later, Formula 1 lands on one of the circuits drivers and fans love most, even if it involves an absurd trip to America, contrary to all the environmental sustainability discourse the organization is trying to put through the eyes of the championship. bring.
The already legendary wall of champions will be able to measure it of Max Verstappen, who has not tested it since his crown, but also that of a Ferrari that is sure to get a good result. The disastrous performance in Baku has thrown them in the air in their battle for the two championships, the drivers and the manufacturers, to the point that not only do they not occupy the first position that seemed clearly theirs at the start of the year, but they are also not in a position to defend the second. In the drivers category, Leclerc has even dropped to third place, surpassed by a Checo Perez who is ready to do anything, even to become the uneasy alternative to Verstappen within the Red Bull team itself.
Leclerc and Sainz are injured after a tough week in Maranello. The hustle and bustle of the journey from Azerbaijan to Canada has not given much room to reflect on what has happened, and while these reliability issues are expected to have been resolved without major problems for Montreal (in Leclerc’s car certainly, as they have a completely new engine on it), they can’t help but aspire to win.
This race is especially critical for the Spanish side of the Ferrari garage, as Sainz is clearly at a disadvantage against his teammate. While Leclerc is aiming for pole position and victory weekend after weekend, although he has converted only two of the top six positions he has achieved for the grid, a dire ratio, he still sees them coming.
And that’s when the problems he suffered in Azerbaijan are solved: if it is clear to Leclerc what to do, they have only reached “a short-term solution” for the Spaniard until they can take the car to the headquarters in Maranello and repair it. it of everything. They assure there will be no problems, but this smacks of deterioration of Ferrari going backwards.
After a difficult start to the season, Fernando Alonso has found the balm in the points. As if from an order that supposedly arrives in 24/48 hours and ends up lasting a week, the Asturian driver adds three consecutive scoring weekends and his goal for Canada is to keep doing this. However, Alonso is aware that a good result depends on what lies ahead, and that has to change. “We need to understand why there are differences between what we feel on Friday and what happens on Sunday,” he went on ahead of this weekend’s race preview.
One of the points for attention will be whether and how the harbor porpoise problems of many drivers in Baku are repeated. Seeing Hamilton or Ricciardo stepping off their single-seaters half limp with his hand on his waist and senile movements while walking makes it clear that the dance of the rebounds was not comfortable at all. Alonso, on the other hand, did not notice: that says very well how the Alpine comes about.
“Our car is pretty good at managing the rebound effect of this year’s cars. I didn’t feel it too much in Baku and we focused more on controlling tire degradation, especially the rear tires. In every circuit it will be different. In Jeddah, for example, it was very smooth and also in Australia, and no one there said anything,” he recalled, in addition to the fact that these hypothetical regulatory changes under consideration imply a degree of agreement that will be difficult to produce.
The other big news that could happen this weekend is the confirmation of Fernando Alonso’s extension. The knock-on effect will kick in once Williams and Alpine confirm the deal for the Grove team to carry Renault engines, under whose terms Oscar Piastri will take the place of the more than expendable Nicholas Latifi. The immediate result will be Alonso signing for another year, with the option of another, save surprise, with Enstone for what may be his last dance, this the final one, in Formula 1 after more than two decades.
Source: La Verdad
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