Carlos Sainz expressed frustration that, regardless of making changes to his Ferrari’s setup, the workforce was unable to resolve the “basic points” affecting their efficiency on the Method 1 Qatar Grand Prix.
For a while now, each Ferrari and its drivers have been involved that the high-speed corners of the Lusail Worldwide Circuit would show difficult for the workforce. These fears have largely been realized, with Ferrari struggling to match the tempo of McLaren and Mercedes in each session thus far.
Regardless that Ferrari had the chance to tweak the automotive setup following the Dash session earlier than the Grand Prix qualifying, Sainz admitted that there’s little extra the workforce can do to enhance the efficiency.
“We undoubtedly tried fairly a couple of issues, each on setup, but in addition in tyre preparation, it simply didn’t appear to alter our basic points,” the long run Williams driver identified –
“I feel if you’re speaking about tyre preparation, you’re speaking in regards to the final tenth, whereas if you lack three or 4 tenths, and also you see all of the medium velocity corners, you’re simply missing minimal speeds and a little bit of three-corner steadiness, and also you realise that possibly simply it’s not fairly in there. It simply looks like our steadiness, or overloading the automotive on this lengthy mixed, fifth/sixth gear corners, doesn’t appear to be performing in addition to it ought to. I feel we’ve tried all the pieces potential with a mushy tyre to change it on, higher, sooner, slower, out laps, something you possibly can think about. And we simply merely appear to be discovering a little bit of a tough restrict with the lap time that we might produce, in notably with Charles, with the brand new flooring, and likewise me with a little bit of a tougher session than yesterday. However it’s what it’s.” – the Spanish driver added on the finish of the qualifying session for the Qatar Grand Prix.
Carlos Sainz has defined the important thing issue that price him the next beginning place for the Qatar Grand Prix, after qualifying seventh on the grid, a full half-second behind the front-runners, George Russell and Max Verstappen.
The Spaniard expressed disappointment, believing he ought to have been positioned greater, and raised issues about Ferrari’s determination to ship him out in Q3 with out the potential of receiving a tow from one other automotive. The Spanish driver questioned the Maranello workforce’s technique, feeling that this determination hindered his probabilities of bettering his lap time and securing a greater place on the grid: “I feel I ought to have certified P6 as a substitute of P7. I went into the final lap of Q3 and not using a automotive in entrance, a tow in entrance, I don’t know why we had been main the pack, and that’s usually a few tenths within the straight free of charge. We missed a bit on that however, on the similar time, it was a very good lap, kind of what the automotive might obtain. To date, I feel we’re maximizing all the pieces, however maximising all the pieces, as I mentioned, it may not be sufficient.” – the Ferrari driver concluded.
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