Scuderia Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto insists the team will not need to change its focus when the second half of the F1 season begins with the Belgian GP on the last weekend of August.
This is Binotto’s fourth season in charge of the team, and despite mounting pressure, exacerbated by a series of poor strategic decisions and questionable reliability, he remains confident his team is on the right track .
“Nothing will change, I think it’s always a matter of confidence, of learning, of developing, of gathering experience, of developing skills,” he said after the Hungarian Grand Prix when asked what needs to happen to take advantage of the team. his often higher race speed.
“But if I look back at the balance of the first half of the season, there is no reason for us to change. I think we just have to understand. [Hungría] and try to be competitive, as we are in 12 races so far. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be [competitivos] next”.
Binotto wanted to stress that the team’s disappointing Hungarian Grand Prix, where Sainz was fourth and Leclerc fifth, was an isolated incident, the first time this season that “we didn’t have the pace”, and not the result of strategic decisions that their lead pilot asked them afterwards.
And it must be said that the team has not been helped by some high-profile mistakes by Charles Leclerc, most recently in France when he crashed out while leading.
Going forward, just nine races remain for the team to try to break Red Bull’s 97-point lead in the constructors’ championship, while Leclerc is 80 points behind Max Verstappen in the drivers’ standings, and is in danger of lose the title. second place in favor of Sergio Pérez. Carlos Sainz, who debuted his record victories at Silverstone, lost fourth place by two points to George Russell before the break and was 102 points behind the Dutchman.
“We win and lose together, [Hungría] It’s not a great race, the last one wasn’t a great race, but I think there’s a lot of potential. I think we need to focus on the cause first [de la falta de velocidad en Hungría]deal with it and come back stronger.”
Source: La Verdad
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