Although Carlos Sainz fought for pole in Monte Carlo and dreamed of victory in the Monaco Grand Prix, where he took the podium for the first time with Ferrari as second place, the farewell to the urban circuits has hurt the Italian team. Formula 1 has returned to normal, showing that Carlos Sainz will have new enemies between now and the end of the season.
And is that the tires have gone from being an ally to an enemy that Ferrari does not know how to deal with. ” You will see us experiment and try new things to fight this problem because it is already becoming quite evident that in the race we are going backwards and we have problems with the tires,” said Carlos Sainz after the French Grand Prix. This race was finished by the eleventh man from Madrid and his teammate Leclerc sixteenth, both outside the points zone.
This result has allowed McLaren to regain third place in the Constructors’ World Championship. Although Ferrari was placed in it after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, McLaren has stopped scoring only with Lando Norris to also do so with Daniel Ricciardo . The Australian has been one of all the riders who have changed teams that have had the hardest time adapting, but his sixth place in France confirms that he is one of Carlos Sainz’s new enemies.
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It is also clear that the Madrilenian will not be able to face Ricciardo, or many other drivers, if Ferrari does not solve the problems with his tires. ” When you have such a bad pace and so much degradation, you can’t do anything with the strategy, ” said Carlos Sainz after the race held at Paul Ricard.
“We have to see why there are teams that can make a stop without degradation doing 1.36 at the end and how we do one and finish in 39 and 40 and then we put half a second in qualifying. It is clear that there is something that does not work on the tire side, you do not have to be a genius, something that I noticed from the first day I joined the team , there is something that does not work in the race and it is what you have to work on and focus now, understand what we are doing wrong in the race because we have to be doing something very wrong to go so slow in these conditions ”, he continued. ” Our working window with the tires is very narrow, and we have to make it bigger and better ,” Carlos Sainz concluded.
Tire problems won’t be solved in the short term
Like the Spaniard, Leclerc has spoken out about it and does not believe that Ferrari will find a solution in the short term: “Today has been very difficult, we have to analyze and understand why we had all these problems. I tried everything but we used up the tires too fast. We will not be able to solve the problem in a short time, we have to improve this year to be competitive next year ”.
The problem with the tires could be due to the rise in pressures, something for which Mattia Binotto has been asked at La Gazzetta dello Sport : “It may be the cause, but we have to analyze the performance well .” “ The problem could happen again . Something did not work. We have had graining, so we have to find out if it depends on the overheating of the tires, ”added the Ferrari team boss.
According to the words of Carlos Sainz , Ferrari detected that they had a problem with the tires in Bahrain, where the preseason was held. Since then, the team has not been able to solve it and, as Leclerc has recognized, it will not do it at cost. Still, he has achieved two poles and Carlos Sainz has once been on the podium with Ferrari. How far will both be able to go if in Maranello they solve the problems they are having with their tires?
