In Bahrain, Ferrari complained about the rapid wear of the tires, but more was not achieved on the smoother road surface in Jeddah. The Scuderia drivers only finished sixth and seventh, again due to tire problems.
Carlos Sainz: “The safety car left at the wrong time for us, but it had no particular impact on the result. The main factor was the slowdown on the Hard tires in the latter part of the race, where we were seriously inferior to both Aston Martin and Mercedes in terms of speed.
Before the start of the weekend and on Friday I was confident that we would become the second strongest team in Jeddah, but in the second segment of the race it became clear that we still had a lot of work to do. In addition, the tire wear problem is exacerbated when our car gets close to the opponent’s car. In this case, the wear is simply catastrophic. Only on a clear track does the car show you good lap times.
We know exactly our weaknesses, but we will not be able to eliminate them tomorrow. The car behaves exactly the same as in the wind tunnel, there are no problems with correlation, so these weaknesses need to be worked out in the wind tunnel and then in the car. This cannot be done in one day. Need time. The team will do everything they can to turn the tide during the season, then we will go faster.”
Source: F1 News
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