Ferrari continues to do its thing despite having changed location for these latest pre-season tests, with a Sainz and a Leclerc who only have good words for a single-seater that for the moment contributes to fulfilling the program.
The good sensations with which Ferrari left Barcelona a couple of weeks ago seem to have accompanied the Maranello team on their trip to Bahrain: beyond occupying second and third position in the irrelevant time table at the end of the day, the F1-75 It continues to promise itself as one of the strongest single-seaters on the grid.
Test settings, the reliability of the red car at temperatures of 37ºC in the air and 47ºC on the track and various solutions pouringthe biggest setback for now of this new generation of single-seaters, was not enough for a Carlos Sainz who always wants more.
«We have lacked a last batch with the C3»confessed #55, probably because of the conjunction of a second Virtual Safety Car test and the definitive red flag caused by Sergio Pérez when he got stuck in the gravel.
Properly progress
Despite leaving after the first half hour of the afternoon session, Sainz was able to accumulate 52 laps in his private account and test Pirelli’s C2, C3 and C4 compounds, scoring his 1:34,359 with the C3 precisely.
“Another good day of testing for us, picking up where we left off in Barcelona, with similar run-in plans but starting to check different set-up windows. Usually we have been able to test two or three things that were very important to us and we have managed to put together a good day of filming without problems, “he added.
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“The mechanics are working hard in the heat, something that is never easy, so I thank them for the effort. We still have a couple of long days left, but I hope they will be very productive”, Sainz concluded, waiting to go out again tomorrow afternoon.
For its part, charles leclerc it reached 64 laps, bringing Ferrari’s total up to 116, the equivalent of 627 kilometres. The young Monegasque driver also had practically the entire range of tyres, with a difference of 172 thousandths of a difference at the end of the day behind Sainz on the same compound.
«We have completed the number of laps that we had proposed and carried out all the tests that we planned»
“The conditions that we have found here are very different from those in Barcelona, especially because it’s much hotter here. This morning everything went well, we have completed the number of laps that we had proposed and we carried out all the tests that we planned, so I am happy. Lap times are not representative, now we are just focusing on ourselves, keeping our heads down and working well,” Leclerc confessed.