The team principal of Ferrari Mattia Binotto sent a dig indirectly to the former Maranello driver Sebastian Vettel analyzing the performance of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz in Bahrain: “We can finally count on both drivers – is the not too veiled message that the manager of the Scuderia sends to the German -. It’s a good place to start, but we can definitely do better. Carlos is joining, is working very well with Leclerc“.
“Knowing how to count on each other is important to us, but first the spirit of wanting to grow. Our opponents are whoever is in front of us, the day we are in front of everyone then they will fight each other. Fighting for the podium today is difficult, we can definitely fight like third force in the league. On other circuits we can hope to have some advantage, but it is difficult to say where we or the others can be better. The fight will be close not only with McLaren, also with Aston Martin and Alpine ”.
Per Sebastian Vettel it was instead a Sunday to forget: five points of the super license removed, a relegation to the last place on the grid and then the tamponade to Esteban Ocon which earned him a ten-second penalty. The four-time world champion, however, was consoled by the number one of theAston Martin Otmar Szafnauer: “It wasn’t the best race, but if you look at the positives he had to start last and found himself fighting in the top-10 for a while. He also felt good in the car ”.
“His lap times were not that dissimilar to Lance’s, who has been here longer, knows the car well and finished the race in a relatively decent position. It’s really early and he hasn’t done many laps in winter testing. We only had three days and all the problems have touched him. I am still confident “.
OMNISPORT | 29-03-2021 20:17
