Carlos Sainz and the Ferrari comparison that leaves Massa badly | Formula 1

Rob Smedley, who was Felipe Massa’s engineer at Ferrari, has publicly applauded the good sense with which Carlos Sainz has arrived at the Italian team. The Madrilenian has not been carried away by the euphoria that his signing has awakened nor has he pressured Leclerc saying he was going to surpass him. Massa, not even having Michael Schumacher as a partner, was able to be prudent, something that weighed heavily on him during his stay in Maranello. “When Felipe joined Ferrari he made the big mistake of saying that he would be like Michael Schumacher, a seven times world champion. The boy had ambitions! “, Has started by saying Rob Smedley in the podcast F1 Nation.” Felipe arrived thinking that he was going to win Michael. When he had a suitable team around him, we told him that this was not going to happen, to put his feet on the ground and forget about it. We explained that he might be able to do it one day, but that it would take a long time. We needed a working procedure to squeeze all his talent and only then did he begin to improve ”, added the current Formula 1 data system director, to whom Massa did not hesitate to take Williams with him when he left Ferrari. de Sainz in the Italian team, Rob Smedley said: “What Carlos could have done is come to Ferrari and make grandiose statements, say he was going to send Leclerc to the gutter and get the status of number one in the team. Because if you do that, the pressure simply increases for the driver, it becomes almost unbearable and performance suffers. ”Carlos Sainz’s prudence with LeclercIt is known to all that in Formula 1 your first rival is your teammate.However, aware that in 2021 the fight for the World Cup is out of the question, Carlos Sainz has invited Leclerc to work together to boost the team to third place in the Constructors’ World Cup. “For me this year it will be very difficult to beat you, because I still need to know a little about the team, although I will always give my maximum and I think that maximum will be to beat you. We will see. There is one thing we must do together and that is to help Ferrari move forward together. If there is a year in which we must work together, I think this is it. Later, when a World Cup or something special is at stake, we will worry about each other, “he told the Monegasque in his presentation. Carlos Sainz demonstrated his intention to collaborate with Leclerc in the preseason:” My philosophy in the tests with my teammates it has always been to try to share and open the book of secrets to help the team. It is the relationship I had with Lando and Ferrari I have brought that spirit of trying to open the book a little and talk to each other to see how we can improve the car together. ”However, the Spaniard invited Leclerc to do the same:“ I trust in which he also has the book open and not closed, as happens in other teams, and that we can learn from each other, but above all more me from him than he from me. “” Obviously I have much more to learn than Charles and I will use his more data than he’s going to use mine. I will use his feedback and others to try to understand well what he takes out of the car and how he is able to get the most out of the Ferrari, and therefore I am going to work with him and I am going to try to learn everything I can, “added Carlos Sainz about.The prudence of Carlos Sainz with the tifosi The prudence of the Madrid native has reached such a point that he has not wanted to create false hopes among Ferrari fans. Although Carlos Sainz has promised the Tifosi that he will leave his soul in each race, he wanted to ask them for patience with a view to 2021: “Last year was very negative, but from such a negative year you don’t recover so easily. You have to wait and start a gradual recovery process. It will not be from one year to the next that Ferrari suddenly returns to where it was a couple of seasons ago. I think you have to be patient. The press has to be patient. The tifosi have to be patient. Between all of us we are asking for a little patience, because we all want to see Ferrari as high as possible as soon as possible, but this is not going to change from one day to the next. from the entry into force of the change of regulation planned for 2022. Optimistic about it, Carlos Sainz has had the audacity to set a deadline to achieve his dream. “In the next 5 years I want to become world champion and I think Ferrari is the best place to do it. I think I have come to the right place at the right time. You feel that you are a part of a story and it is a great responsibility ”, he affirmed.