Carlos Sainz reckons Ferrari has seemingly wasted 2-3 months of development after the recent update brought back the bouncing issue.
Since the recent update from Ferrari has seemingly brought back the bouncing issue, Sainz reckons the Italian manufacturer has lost development work of about 2-3 months, thereby dropping off its F1 rivals especially Mercedes and McLaren.
As they are weighing up between the Imola and Barcelona spec, it has somewhat held Ferrari back in the process and now they are playing catch-up after not taking right calls. “It is clearly not good enough,” said Sainz to media. “We are basically the same car as in Imola and since Imola, everyone has upgraded, probably added two-tenths to the car and we have had to revert.
“We have lost two-or-three months of performance gain in the wind tunnel or performance we could have added in these three months. So clearly, we haven’t taken the right calls recently, but I feel like in Silverstone, it was at least back-to-basics, back to a car which was in Imola and we just need to upgrade it from here.
“But it is clear that our rivals are a good step ahead of us. Looking towards Hungary, it will still mean we will bounce in Turns 4 and 11, but until nothing better comes, we may have to live with bouncing for slow-speed performance while, in high-speed tracks we might have to run the floor off this package because if not, the other one is undrivable.
“So far, the situation we are in, I trust the team will make the right calls circuit-to-circuit, until a more solid package, which is not bouncing in high-speed and good in low-speed, arrives and then we will start thinking about battling the top three teams again,” summed up Sainz.
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