If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong at Ferrari.. Those from Maranello had another memorable weekend at Silverstone, with Charles Leclerc dropping to ninth, ahead of Carlos Sainz, who finished tenth.
man from Madrid He was punished for leaving the security car even though he had stopped it. He also missed the right strategy on the hard tyre, as his team sprinted to fifth and sixth, just behind Mercedes and ahead of Aston Martin.
Seeing his friend Lando Norris on the podium after the race in England, Carlos could not hide his disappointment at a result that was undoubtedly worse than expected. “it’s been a little bit of everything. At the beginning of the race, I think it was not bad, but frankly, we saw in a short time that Mercedes and McLaren were faster than us. Even so, I was able to extend the time with the medium ones and then progress very quickly with the hard ones.until the security tool that conditioned my career came along,” he summed up.
“I had to restart with hard cars versus medium or soft cars. I defended myself as best I could, but in the end it didn’t work.“,” Sainz added, resigning.
Given the hypothesis that a second stop, as Leclerc did, would change the final outcome, Sainz thinks it is “very difficult” as “if he had entered to put on soft tyres, he would have started tenth and would have to overtake the same cars”. with the same tire, it’s too complicated”.
The Spaniard pointed out that race speed is still a problem Ferrari has to solve:Speed needs improvement, especially with windBecause there were two or three corners that we pulled a lot from the wind today. “We know this is our weak spot and we need to improve it,” he said.