Ferrari Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz expects his crew to be more competitive in Austria after seeing a key automobile weak point punished in Spain.
Sainz and crew-mate Charles Leclerc qualified on the third row in Barcelona, within the support of every Mercedes autos and front-row duo Lando Norris (McLaren) and Max Verstappen (Red Bull).
Its toddle tempo wasn’t too varied, with every drivers unable to discover forward of the Mercedes duo despite searching to spoil up tyre methods, finishing within the identical dwelling they started.
Sainz admitted Ferrari was once fourth-fastest in his dwelling toddle, but talked about Barcelona’s structure punished Ferrari’s long nook weak point bigger than varied circuits will attain, wanting forward to to be more competitive this weekend on the Red Bull Ring.
“It was once no longer our easiest weekend, but this was once the song where we struggled the most closing year too,” Sainz talked about.
“So as that’s our hope, that it’s staunch a [bad] song for us and that there’ll be varied tracks where we would be a bit more competitive.
“Or no longer it is the high-tempo nature of the song and the long, combined [corners], we seem like continuously struggling when it’s long corners luxuriate in China, right here or Suzuka.
“I be conscious Austria no longer being an discipline for song traits, so I grunt we would be more competitive on story of the nook kinds.”
Carlos Sainz, Scuderia Ferrari, Charles Leclerc, Scuderia Ferrari, in Parc Ferme
Picture by: Simon Galloway / Motorsport Pictures
Crew boss Fred Vasseur felt that Barcelona’s pecking uncover did not necessarily negate a pattern for the last races forward of the summer spoil, with the tight margins between the slay four groups causing higher fluctuations than in previous years.
“The uncover is changing because within the closing four weekends you’ll be succesful of want four varied groups doing pole dwelling. We did not trade the automobile vastly, that implies it’s more relative to the song structure, to the compounds, to being within the temperature window.
“Earlier than drawing conclusions, now we luxuriate in got to stay mute, now we luxuriate in got to recede tournament by tournament and [in Austria] this would per chance well be a truly varied layout, varied tarmac, varied form of corners also and presumably the image will be completely varied next week.
“Nothing is perpetually in F1 these days and it skill it’s no longer crystal obvious that one crew is better than the varied.”
Vasseur talked about Ferrari critically fell fast in Barcelona qualifying, with the crew wanting to dig deeper into easy methods to get the SF-24 within the coolest tyre window for the length of a single lap.
“A truly much ingredient in Barcelona is to get the functionality of the tyres all over the lap in varied corners,” he outlined.
“Possibly we omitted something on this because we had been two tenths off.
“But with 14 corners in Barcelona, we’re no longer dropping one-hundredth per nook. We lost two times one-tenth per lap and the remaining of the lap was once a copy-paste of Lando.”
Extra reporting by Jonathan Noble
