Ferrari has the ‘big bad’ stop two potential, and actual, numbers 1 on your team. To two pilots who want to win a World Cup, and who still haven’t done it. To a couple in which sometimes it is difficult to know which one is better than the other. Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz face a new course with the same objective. With the aim of being world champions… and knowing what decisions they will have to make from the wall.
Because they premiere boss. Frederic Vasseur He has arrived from Alfa Romeo taking over from Mattia Binotto, and has already said that, for the moment, they have not established the roles. The key, of course, is that ‘for now’.
They will have to. Sooner than later, or later than soon, as the 2023 races roll by They will have to choose if they bet on Leclerc or if they do it on Sainz. Necessary. It is so that things like those that have happened in other teams do not happen.
Alonso-Ocon, Hamilton-Rosberg…
Without going any further, in Alpine. The French did not put too many limits on the fight between Fernando Alonso, two-time world champion, and Esteban Ocon. The result, an absurdity in Saudi Arabia and a touch on the ‘sprint’ of Brazil. That was when the limit was already crossed, when they got serious.
Going to teams with options to win, Vettel and Webber, with the image of Turkey always in memory, and also Mercedes with Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. In both couples there was something more than tension… that even moved off the track.
Frederic Vasseur knows that he has what he has both in the present and in the future… and the choice it is not entirely clear.
“Sainz is a potential winner”
Because he loves Carlos Sainz: “We have always had a very good relationship. have demonstrated That’s a potential winner.”
But Charles Leclerc is, of the two, the that more poles and victories adds: “If at one stage I have to take some action, I will.”
The beginning of the season, key
That day will come, and the first races are postulated as key in the future of Sainz and Leclerc. In Carlos’ ‘must’ is that the best version of him arrives midway through the campaign, and there Ferrari may already have a decision made.
