The degradation of Ferrari was fatal in the Bahrain Grand Prix. Especially in the final section, where Carlos Sainz lived through an ordeal with Fernando Alonso behind. He couldn’t hold off the Aston Martin and fell off the podium. Even so, he fared better than his partner, charles leclercwhose car stopped with a battery problem.
The fight between Sainz and Alonso did not last long. He AMR23 It was much faster and Alonso was in the middle of a comeback, rolling with much more rhythm than the Ferraris.
The Asturian had gone to lewis hamilton with a spectacular maneuver in turn 10, an area almost impossible to overtake. And Ferrari, from the wall, warned Sainz that he could try it there.
“Alonso passed Hamilton in turns 9-10. Watch there, just in case. It is 1.3 seconds away,” Sainz was told from the Ferrari box.
“Understood, I’ll take care of it”Sainz replied. But he couldn’t do it. The overtaking was not in that area, but in a curve after using the DRS. The Aston Martin was superior to the Ferrari. This has been the case at the beginning of the Formula 1 season.
🗣️ “Alonso passed Hamilton in turns 9-10. Watch there, just in case”
This is how Ferrari alerted by radio to @Carlossainz55 after overtaking @alo_oficial to Hamilton 💥 pic.twitter.com/Y5clS6piUE
— DAZN Spain (@DAZN_ES) March 7, 2023
Ferrari has a lot of work ahead of it. In tire degradation and also in reliability problems such as Leclerc’s battery. Could be penalized after just one race for the change of ya two batteries. Something almost unusual in the competition.
Australia is the next appointment. And from Maranello they hope not to be so far from max verstappen (the difference in the race was more than 40 seconds) and to be able to fight against Fernando Alonso’s Aston.
