Ferrari is not up to the task of fighting for pole in the 2024 F1 Qatar GP classification this Saturday in the middle of the fight for the Constructors’ World Championship with McLaren. Those in red couldn’t get the soft tire to work well on a circuit where they expected them not to be at the top, and They finished with Leclerc in 5th place and Sainz, in 7th.
The Spanish driver recalled that he lost a few extra tenths compared to Charles due to not having a slipstream on the straight in his last lap of Q3, but despite this, there was nothing more than the red cars, which had to reduce the losses or try to overcome to reach Abu Dhabi with options to fight for the World Cup of Constructors. NOrris starts 3rd, with Piastri in fourth place. The people of Maranello will not have it easy.
“In the end, having Max and Russell helps us stop the McLarens from taking too many points, but it’s not worth it if they take points from them, it should be us. But coming here we were warned, that we were expecting a tough weekend and it was. “A warner is not a traitor.”he commented to ‘ESPN’.
“We were two or three tenths away every time we put on soft tires all weekend and that’s what we lacked in Q3, two or three tenths for Charles, and me a little bit more because the last lap of Q3 was I’ve had any slipstreams and I’ve lost a lot in the straights, but the truth is nothing more.”the Spaniard revealed to ‘DAZN’.
“This is what we expected coming into this weekend, that the car would be two or three tenths behind first and that’s what happened. Let’s see if something happens tomorrow in the race and we can come back.”argued Carlos who acknowledged the understeer problems the Maranello car suffered with soft rubber.
“We’re having problems with understeer, but we only have the soft tires. So in the race, when medium and hard tires are used, we are quite fast. It’s also true that I’m struggling to make up three or four tenths with just the tire, but we’ll fight no matter what,” he added.
“We tried everything to make that soft tire work, but we were three or four tenths behind first all the time and when you try everything and it doesn’t work, it is what it is”he added on ‘FOX Sports’.
“We had two weekends in a row with very low temperatures, very hard tires… (Pirelli’s hardest range) I don’t know, I don’t know if that’s the reason. As soon as I saw the kind of curves here I knew we weren’t fast. But what happened, in the race… in the sprint race we didn’t do anything bad. “You have to wait to talk after the race, that’s when you leave the weekend happy or unhappy.”
Source: La Verdad
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