After being the most effective in the pre-season tests, managing to amass more laps and kilometers than anyone else, it is now up to Ferrari to endorse its good base in the 2022 season, and Sainz still has work to do.
TO almost half a second from a teammate whom he ended up beating last year in his debut season with Ferrari and something more from Max Verstappen, who is called to be the number 1 enemy of the Italian team, at least at this start of the 2022 season , if nothing fixes it.
This is how Carlos Sainz was in the afternoon session after staying just half a tenth behind Charles Leclerc in the morning. The explanation? Sainz himself recounts it: «They have been good Free 1, my feelings with the car have improved since the tests. Unfortunately, in Free Practice 2 these good feelings disappeared, “acknowledges #55.
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«I suffered quite a bit with the one-lap performance. It seems to me that I still have to see what happens with the tires, because it is clear that I did not get the most out of the soft tires today, “sainz continued.
The Spanish Ferrari driver already highlighted on the last test day in Bahrain that tire degradation is still very high on his F1-75the successor of a single-seater that had a tendency to devour the tires much earlier than its rivals, a setback that those from Maranello were placating as the year progressed but that they never managed to completely solve.
«I will have to analyze it in detail for tomorrow, because I am fighting with the front tires, we did not nail it with the settings and I had trouble making a clean lap. Let’s see what we can find for tomorrow, if we discover a good lap time it will mean that we are back in the fight and it will be good news, “adds Sainz.
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The fact that the man from Madrid needed to go through boxes to mount a new set of soft tires to charge again and set a medium 1:32, unlike his teammatetestifies that, in addition to the traffic that Sainz encountered on his final flying lap with faster tires, the management of Pirelli’s compounds is still a pending task for him.
“I trust we can recover the sensations this morning and when we will be ready for qualifying”, concluded Sainz, wishing to have time on the track again aboard his new single-seater to be able to fine-tune it to his liking and thus be able to unleash a talent with which he aspires to achieve the first victory of his sports career.