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 to this point.
Although Ferrari had the chance to tweak the automobile 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 longer term Williams driver identified –
“I believe 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 as if our steadiness, or overloading the automobile on this lengthy mixed, fifth/sixth gear corners, doesn’t appear to be performing in addition to it ought to. I believe we’ve tried all the pieces potential with a gentle tyre to change it on, higher, quicker, slower, out laps, something you may think about. And we simply merely appear to be discovering a little bit of a tough restrict with the lap time that we may produce, in significantly with Charles, with the brand new ground, and likewise me with a little bit of a harder 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 larger, and raised issues about Ferrari’s choice to ship him out in Q3 with out the potential for receiving a tow from one other automobile. The Spanish driver questioned the Maranello workforce’s technique, feeling that this choice hindered his probabilities of bettering his lap time and securing a greater place on the grid: “I believe I ought to have certified P6 as a substitute of P7. I went into the final lap of Q3 with out a automobile 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 totally free. We missed a bit on that however, on the similar time, it was an excellent lap, kind of what the automobile may obtain. Thus far, I believe 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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