Ferrari face off Italian Grand Prix with many doubts and the pressure of trying to live up to his ‘typhoid’. Carlos Sainz is torn between the logical illusion of presenting his best face to Scuderia fans and the doubts that haunt the team, which is far from its best this season. to Madrid podiums resist him and teammate Charles Leclerc, who fought for the title a year ago, only have three as the best trophy, placing the Maranello team in fourth place in the overall teams rankings.
“I don’t say anything anymore because I don’t know. In such a volatile year, I’m not gambling with a prediction that one-tenth of a car falls in your favor and you’re on the podium, falling against you, and out of the ‘top 10’. I hope we go to Spa and Austria rather than ZandvoortI hope so,” Sainz said when he got to the track.
Both Carlos and his team are already looking to next season: “I think We already understood what we want to introduce in next year’s car and what features we want it to have.with. We focused on achieving this by working in the simulator, in the wind tunnel, or even taking time out of free practice to keep trying some car-related stuff for the next course. We use this second half of the year to: test car parts of 2024Now he has to go in another direction, which is very difficult. They touch the changes and learn everything possible to apply them to the next car.”
By the way, they don’t throw in the towel: “We continue to fight with Mercedes and Aston Martin in the world championship of constructorsWe believe that if we do the job perfectly, we can be at the top. It’s no secret that this year we had a hard time keeping the car on the road, especially in unpredictable conditions, windy conditions and long cornering. We also had problems with the tyres, but now we understand what the glitches are and we’ll see if we can put everything together and create a better car next year,” insisted Sainz.
Racing in the red at Ferrari’s home for the third year, Carlos admits that racing against ‘tifocia’ is a unique feeling. “Being a Ferrari driver at Monza is special And that’s one of the best things that can happen to you as a racing driver, so I focused on enjoying the moment, the moment, and realizing the opportunity I have as a driver. Even though it’s not the middle zone anymore, but it’s the high zone of the grid, I think it won’t be such a difficult weekend. A team that is Red Bull and dominates. We’ll see the rest.”