🗣️'A lot of times we were just never as fast as [Red Bull].' Carlos Sainz has said that warning signs over Ferrari’s race-pace difficulties in F1 were already flashing up at the end of last year ⬇️
Carlos Sainz has said that warning signs over Ferrari’s race-pace difficulties in Formula 1 were already flashing up at the end of last year.The Spaniard and his team-mate Charles Leclerc have struggled for much of this season with their SF-23 proving to have a lack of consistency, especially on Sundays.
“If you analyse it a bit as a bigger picture, already towards the second half of last year you could see that we had a car capable of fighting for pole positions but, in the race, we were always getting beaten by Red Bull,” Sainz told Autosport in an exclusive interview. Sainz said Ferrari had no way of knowing at that stage what the situation was, especially as rival Red Bull did not really hit its stride until the middle part of the season.
“Also, because it's after six/seven races where you commit to a car or to a concept, maybe even those strong first six races of the [2022] season also made us trust maybe this concept and this car. But despite the outside appearances, Sainz has admitted that the SF-23 is not a car that inspires confidence when taken to the limit.
“With the exception of Baku, which is still a weekend I don't understand and I will never understand, every other weekend, I've been more or less where the car has to be. And in that sense, I am proud of it.
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