Binotto: Not the Best Race in Mexico City – Standalone Episode

Ferrari team head Mattia Binotto is not worried about the increase in Mercedes results, he does not see this as a trend. He says the failed race in Mexico City, where Carlos Sainz finished fifth and Charles Leclerc finished sixth, is nothing more than a special case.

Mattia Binotto: “Mercedes is overtaking us – it looks like they were more competitive than us. However, we understand that we stopped the modernization of the car a long time ago and turned all attention to the preparations for 2023, so the I don’t worry too much about lagging behind in this area, we know exactly when F1-75 was discontinued.

As Max Verstappen and Red Bull have already won all major championship trophies, it is now the battle for a symbolic second place in the Constructors’ Championship, where we have Mercedes with two races left before the end of the season, 40 points ahead of Mercedes. .

If you look at the results of the three races leading up to the Mexican Grand Prix, we were quite competitive in Singapore, in Japan we didn’t have enough speed to compete with Verstappen on a wet track, but this gap cannot be dramatic. be called , because we lost quite a bit in qualifying.

In Austin we were competitive in qualifying and to a lesser extent in the race. In Mexico City, our business was very insignificant, but I wouldn’t talk about a negative trend, this is just a separate episode where we didn’t have enough speed.

We made good tactical decisions, preferring the one pit stop option and our choice turned out to be the right one. At one point we had the desire to change Charles’ tactics in favor of two pit stops, but then he would end up behind too many cars in traffic.