After the success of Charles Leclerc at the Italian GPin Monza, Ferrari arrive at this weekend’s Azerbaijan GP hoping to once again fight for victory in Bakuanother high-speed route where the red car should adapt well due to its characteristics. For this reason, Carlos Sainz did not hide at the start of the event in Baku that the weekend event could “a good chance to win”, just as Ferrari might have at the next race in Singapore.
“I think it’s a track where our car could adapt. We were fast here before, I think the last four pole positions at this track are from Charles Leclerc.. So, yes, the car handles well in the low speed 90 degree corners we usually see our car works well, like in Singapore last year, Monza or even Las Vegas. So it could be a good chance to win another race or even be on the podium.”he assured in statements reported by ‘Marca’.
“In addition, it gives us the opportunity to be closer to the Constructors’ World Championship. In Monza, Singapore, Baku, Las Vegas, maybe even Mexico, we can have a strong car and we will give our best”he recalls, and Ferrari is in third place with 407 points, 31 behind the all-track favorite, McLaren, and 39 behind the leader, a Red Bull with a lot of balance problems that should suffer again.
“I think the main difficulty is in the different surfaces. For example, the way a tire reacts in Bahrain has nothing to do with how it reacts on a new surface like Spa or Monza. And you get to these weekends where in FP2 you only do 8 laps and in the race you have to do 30. That’s why everyone is blindfolded in the race. “I wouldn’t say that in Monza there isn’t a bit of luck, because you don’t know if the tire is going to hold on lap 20 or if it’s going to fall off on lap 25 or 28 or 30. And if it’s going to explode or not,” he said. Carlos Sainz was referring to Ferrari’s success at Monza and how much better the red cars’ tires held up when heading into one stop instead of the two-stop approach that doomed McLaren.
“Our tires and everything else were at zero when the race ended. So there was a bit of luck, but it wasn’t a shot in the arm.”. We have nothing to lose by stopping and we know we will finish third and fourth. “If Charles and I had stayed out, there was a chance to win at Monza,” he argued in this regard.
Source: La Verdad
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