Ferrari are “pushing flat out” to introduce an improve sooner than deliberate to repair the high-speed bouncing which has held them again in latest races.
Carlos Sainz Jnr mentioned the group has recognized the issue in latest races on the Pink Bull Ring and Circuit de Catalunya which embrace a number of fast corners. With extra of the identical coming on the subsequent rounds, Ferrari are exhausting at work on a repair.
“I see the manufacturing unit pushing flat out to grasp the troubles that we’ve hit within the final couple of weekends and making an attempt to carry already for Silverstone a bundle that permits us to carry out a bit higher within the high-speed corners as a result of it’s clearly been our weak spot,” he mentioned.
Max Verstappen’s efficiency benefit by way of the faster corners was significantly noticeable in qualifying, mentioned Sainz.
“Max was a lot faster by way of there, however not solely Max, additionally Mercedes and McLaren have been a transparent step forward of us in these kind of corners. And we all know Silverstone is the king of the high-speed, so we have to do a step.
“Clearly, we wish to be aggressive there. And we’re going to struggle every thing we are able to and attempt to discover every thing we are able to to make ourselves extra aggressive there.”
He admitted the group needed to compromise its set-up final weekend with a view to hold the bouncing underneath management in qualifying.
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“Within the race it’s much less of an issue since you carry much less pace into these high-speed corners,” he mentioned. “The automobile rolls much less and you’ve got much less bouncing as a consequence.
“However clearly, in case you have it in quali, you must arrange the automobile otherwise for qualifying after which most likely you pay the value within the race. So it’s not a great state of affairs. It doesn’t make you good in quali and it doesn’t make you good within the race.
“We have now been speaking rather a lot about bouncing the final couple of weekends, which reveals that it’s been a little bit of a difficulty, however I imagine there’s additionally different issues that we have to enhance with a view to at the least beat Mercedes in Silverstone and attempt to get again nearer to McLaren and Pink Bull.”
Talking forward of the final race, Sainz’s group mate Charles Leclerc mentioned he thought the group was extra constrained by its efficiency in slower corners.
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