It wasn’t a free practice on Friday of Grand Prix of Styria easy, that of Ferrari. In the two sessions on the Austrian circuit of Red Bull Ring Carlos Sainz he scored in both the eleventh time, while Charles Leclerc has been tenth in the first and thirteenth in the second. Both of the Maranello’s drivers come out of this day with many questions still unanswered, because both on the race pace and on the qualifying one the performances they weren’t exceptional.
“Today was a challenge. Mainly because we lost some focus on qualifying performance and instead gained some to try to understand the car – said Sainz -. Now we hope to put everything back where we want that is and to get some answers when it is time for qualifying “.
“Six days between testing and racing within a week and a half give us the opportunity to put together a lot of data during the first week and at the same time we have the following week to possibly correct the shot in case of bad performances – continued the Spaniard -. At the same time we always want optimize every weekend. We are still fighting for third place in the championship (the constructors’ championship, ed) and we said from the beginning that there would be medium and long-term problems that would not be resolved after a race, and in fact we are returned to the problems with the front tires ”.
“Today we struggled a bit with the pace on the short stints and with little petrol – Leclerc said in turn -. Instead in those with a lot of fuel we were actually quite competitive with the others, but we must work on our qualifying pace, which so far, since the beginning of the season, had been ours strength. We know more or less where to work for increase our performances, so we hope to put all the pieces together tomorrow ”.
“It will still be a difficult Saturday, because we are not completely sure we are at the right point for Sunday’s race – continued the Monegasque -. In France we were quite happy on the friday, but on sunday we had one bad surprise, so it’s very difficult at the moment to say what’s going to happen, but we’re working hard and I feel we’re more ready for Sunday’s race than last week. We have to work a little on the pace in qualifying and then everything will be fine“.
OMNISPORT | 25-06-2021 23:45
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