Formula 1: Carlos Sainz has a problem with the Ferrari

Ferrari has taken a step forward in 2021. Although it was sixth in the Constructors’ World Championship last season, this season it is fighting with McLaren for third place. Even so, Carlos Sainz acknowledged that as far as top speed is concerned, they are still behind the British team. In his analysis of the Spanish Grand Prix, in which he finished seventh, he pointed out: “I had a rhythm to finish the race ahead Of the cars that preceded me, I was faster than them, even Daniel Ricciardo’s McLaren, but it is very difficult for us to overtake. Our top speed was worse than theirs and that made it impossible for me to overtake. ”Carlos Sainz also criticized himself:“ Of course, I still have to familiarize myself with several things, especially with Ferrari’s starting system. I am sure that very soon I will be able to do with Ferrari what I did at McLaren, which is to qualify well, start well and thus bring home the best possible result without being blocked by other cars both at the start and in the race pace in general. “Unlike Carlos Sainz, Leclerc, who was fourth in the Spanish Grand Prix, is bordering on perfection:” Achieving the perfect result, as Charles did, depends on a combination of factors. First of all you need to have a perfect weekend: a good qualifying and a lap in Q3 that I did not do and that without this problem would have allowed me to make my start easier. This was something that I was particularly good at at McLaren and I put the whole weekend together and that’s what I need to keep improving in the next races for this team to perform at the best possible level, ”added the Spaniard.Ferrari and Carlos Sainz will soon fight for the victories Optimistic regarding the next races of Ferrari was recently shown Ross Brawn. “There is no doubt that the SF21 is significantly better than last year’s car, and Leclerc is getting all the rhythm, and something more, every time he gets in the car,” wrote the general manager of Formula 1 in his opinion column after the Spanish Grand Prix: “Ferrari won’t need much more to knock on the door of the ‘Top 2’. And that’s something quite remarkable considering where 2020 ended up. The team is performing at a very high level, and they have a package that has proven to be fast on circuits with very different characteristics. On the track, the car looks good, you don’t have the feeling that it doesn’t deserve to be where it is “, he added. In the Ferrari step forward, Ross Brawn highlighted Sainz’s contribution:” There is also a great dynamic between Charles and Carlos right now and I don’t think the advantages of that can be underestimated. The cooperation and positive attitude of their two drivers is propelling them forward. And there is no doubt that when the couple get the right car, they will both get victories. ”Ferrari prepares a more powerful engine Along the same lines as Carlos Sainz, Mattia Binotto alluded weeks ago to Ferrari’s lack of top speed:“ I think We still lack a motor, less than before, certainly, so the gap has closed and I think we are recovering ”. “Hopefully by next year, when we have a new power unit again, we will be able to catch up relative to the others,” added the optimistic Italian team boss for 2022.Looking ahead to next season Carlos Sainz will have to do extra work since he is currently at a disadvantage compared to Leclerc: “With Charles, words are unnecessary. We know how fast he is and it will be very, very difficult to get ahead of him on any circuit. We will have to keep trying to improve ”, he admitted. “The tricks of the Ferrari and the style of the car I don’t know very well, so I am doing extra hours in telemetry and data analysis with my engineers, I want to understand how the maximum potential is extracted from the car. I’m still a step behind where I would like to be ”, the Madrid native concluded.