Ferrari has not started with the best possible foot the World Cup. charles leclerc he has two retirements in three tests, and the car suffers in race pace. suffered it Carlos Sainz in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, but in Australia everything was different. The man from Madrid was strong, although Albert Park is a track that hardly degrades tires, although a sanction left him without points.
Because that is the ‘must’ they have at the ‘Scuderia’, and little can be known after a track in which someone did almost 50 laps with the same rubber compound.
However, Fred Vasseur, Ferrari boss, is convinced that it is the way to go: “Our pace was good. Sainz had a great race, and was able to climb from eleventh to fourth place”.
He also points to the key: “He matched the times of Mercedes and Aston Martin in many moments… and we shortened the distance with Red Bull”.
“But we are missing something. The car has a lot of room for improvement, and everyone we have a budget ceiling. We have to focus on that,” insists Vasseur.
Now, Baku: “We will see what happens with that changing wind in each curve. Then also We are going to make some improvements.”
“The spirit in the team is very good. Sainz, Leclerc… in a closed park at the end of the race they were sad, logical, but Carlos recovered in an hour and I know Charles”, sentence the head of the Italians.