After dominating a new free practice session, something that in 2022 he had only achieved in Free Practice 1 in Australia, Carlos Sainz is preparing to finish fine-tuning his driving to challenge the rest of the top drivers for the championship.
Beyond the second position that Carlos Sainz achieved so far this season in the last Canadian Grand Prix, his best result with Ferrari to date, the #55 prefers to focus on maintain the level that allowed him to ride close to Max Verstappencurrent world champion, in the last laps.
only with a similar rhythm The one he showed then, maintained constantly and without making mistakes that would take him away from his main objective in Formula 1, that of becoming champion, may have, perhaps, a chance to at least touch it.
Time is running out
After the latest changes made to his power unit in the early stages of the British GP, Sainz is left at the limit of the penalty: 3rd turbo, 3rd MGU-H and 3rd MGU-K for the man from Madrid before even reaching the halfway point of the season, a situation that Ferrari will have to monitor closely in order to manage it in the most efficient way.
“It has been a very busy second free practice session due to the lack of filming in Free Practice 1,” Sainz confessed. While in the morning it was of those who rode the most on wetjust behind Hamilton and Bottas with 8 laps, the afternoon was another matter.
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“We had to create a intense test plan for Free Practice 2 to properly check the pace both in short run and long run. It was quite a demanding session, the wind made it difficult to find the right balance in the high speed sections and the right compromise for the tires in the low speed sections”, he added.
Ferrari has wasted numerous occasions to get more points than Red Bull in both the drivers’ and constructors’ championships to level a battle that, at least for the moment, the energy drink team has under control.
“Qualifying could get interesting; those few wet laps in Free Practice 1 were useful»
“In general we have been fast, but it seems that there is room for improvement. Tomorrow qualifying could get interesting due to the weather conditions, so those few laps in wet conditions in Free Practice 1 were also useful. Let’s see what tomorrow holds» Sainz concluded.
For his part, Charles Leclerc acknowledged that he was unable to close the only lap he was going to take on soft tires in the morning due to the red flag caused by Stroll, but he is confident in his car just like Sainz. «I trust that we will be competitive and that it will be a matter of putting it all together»noted the Monegasque.