In Barcelona, Ferrari experienced the worst stage of the season – Carlos Sainz finished fifth and Charles Leclerc, having started from the pit lane, did not earn any points. Team leader Frederic Vasseur admitted that the engineers have not yet succeeded in achieving stable behavior on track from the car.
“I believe our main problem is not the potential for a fast lap or the car not fitting into certain types of corners,” Vasseur said after the finish of the Spanish Grand Prix. – The main problem is that we cannot achieve stable behavior of the SF-23 on the track.
Let’s take Charles’ car as an example. He drove the first and third segments on the same composition. [Hard], but on the first segment the car behaved unbalanced and on the third segment the balance problems disappeared. As for Carlos, he had a good first and last stint, but lost 15 or 20 seconds in the second stint against his opponents.
It is very difficult for us to understand the causes of these problems and eliminate them because the causes are different every time. I don’t think the problems in Barcelona are related to the degradation of rubber. We could if we attacked harder, but relegation was not the biggest problem.
Carlos showed good pace in the last laps. This suggests that the tires have not lost their efficiency. Charles, in the first segment, complained about the balance of the car from the first to the last lap.
It’s true that we look faster in qualifying on an empty track than in traffic on a racetrack, but in Barcelona that wasn’t always the case. In the second stint Carlos was running on an empty track, but his pace was a disaster.”
Source: F1 News
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