Ferrari managed to bounce again from a really tough Canadian Grand Prix the place they failed to attain a single level. However, the Scuderia anticipated extra from their automobile that has been simply upgraded for the Barcelona spherical.
Charles Leclerc began from P5, and ended the race in P5, albeit it was a relatively eventful afternoon for the Monegasque. Ferrari executed an offset technique with Leclerc which meant that he dropped down the order after each his first and second pit cease.
However, his brisker tyres meant on each events that he may shut the hole to his rivals. On the final lap, he may utterly shut in on Mercedes driver George Russell, however he would have wanted another lap to try an overtaking manoeuvre.
“It was tight as we speak and we had been only a lap in need of preventing for P4, however our opponents had been nonetheless forward by way of tempo. Regarding our technique, I believe we did nicely to offset ourselves from the automobiles round us.
“We maybe lost some time between our two cars at the beginning of the race, but going forward we will focus on our race pace extracting the maximum from our package at the next race,” stated Leclerc.
His team-mate Carlos Sainz set the sixth-quickest lap in qualifying, and the Spaniard got here dwelling precisely in the identical place in entrance of his adoring followers.
The Madrid-born driver executed a really totally different technique to Leclerc as he pitted earlier on each events, and he went for Pirelli’s exhausting tyres for his final stint.
“It was a tough race however we gave it our greatest. Stopping early and ending the race on the Hard tyre didn’t develop into the optimum technique as we speak, however we solely know this with hindsight after the chequered flag.
“In any case, we had been missing a little bit of tempo this weekend basically and we have to work to enhance for subsequent weekend in Austria.
“A massive thank you goes to every single fan that came to the track today and also to those who followed and supported us from home. A home race for a driver is always special and Barcelona is no exception for me.”
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Team boss Fred Vasseur stated that the important thing lesson from the Barcelona spherical was that the Scuderia must carry out higher in qualifying in order that they don’t have to take dangers with the technique.
“We began 5 and 6 and ended 5 and 6 and the conclusion I draw from that is that we should do a greater job in qualifying. We have to make a small step ahead in order that we don’t begin behind, as this pushes you into taking dangers with the technique.
“Yesterday the hole to these in entrance was about two tenths, as we speak it was comparable and should you have a look at it over the race distance then that was nonetheless the identical hole.
“As for the contact between our drivers, it was very gentle and I don’t assume it value us something. What value us extra is that after our stops, we got here out behind some automobiles, it was very tight and we misplaced two or three seconds.
“With Carlos we wanted to cover Russell, which is why we had to go Medium-Hard as we pitted earlier. With Charles the plan was to extend the stint to go a bit longer which is why we were able to try the Softs,” concluded the Frenchman.
“With such small gaps between the teams, everything can change: there are four teams in two to two and a half tenths so from track to track the pecking order can change. Next week we race in Austria where we will have another Sprint and I expect the track layout there will suit us better.”
