Carlos Sainz The 2023 preseason has already started aboard a single-seater. He did it in Fiorano with the SF21, the car he used Ferrari for the 2021 season, completing a total of 119 laps.
Those 119 laps are equivalent to 354 kilometers filming for the Spaniard, in a day that has not been as long as expected from the Scuderia because of the rain. Despite running dry for half of the session, Sainz used the wet tires both at the beginning of the morning and at the end of the session.
It should be remembered that Formula 1 has prohibited pilots from driving with the new car before the initial tests, so Ferrari organized this training session with the 2021 car, one that Sainz knows very well as it was from his first season with the Italians.
Despite this inability to use the new car (which at this time of the year will still have room for minor tweaks) this training session is very useful for the drivers, who have not been in a Formula 1 car since the end of last season.
Thus, they get back to the automatisms of getting back on track and the mechanics also get acquainted with what the grand prix routine is.
Sainz has been the third Formula 1 driver to go out on track in training (Tsunoda and De Vries already did it with AlphaTauri in Imola). He did it the day after the session robert swartzmanFerrari test driver, and charles leclerc He will take over from the Spanish on the last day of training scheduled by the Scuderia.
