Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow Team boss Mattia Binotto The disappointing result in Portugal cost the team in the battle for third place in the constructors’ championship Carlos Sainz Jr. failed because of the top ten.
The Italian manufacturer showed the potential of another successful weekend in the three training units and in qualifying. Sainz started in fifth and outperformed his teammate for the first time this season Charles Leclerc was eighth on the starting grid.
However, both cars had problems on Sunday, although Leclerc finished sixth and scored valuable points. The newly hired Sainz dropped out of the points and finished eleventh, losing ground McLaren F1 Teamwho had both drivers in the top ten.
Binotto said the team failed to benefit from a good qualifying and lost costly points in the constructors’ championship:
“Today’s result was not what we expected. We couldn’t use the potential of qualifying and that cost us a lot of points in the classification of the designers.
“Charles drove a very solid race and made up part of the ground lost yesterday. Carlos had a difficult race, especially in the second stint. “
Ferrari remains fourth in the constructors’ championship, despite only having eight points in Portugal. Nevertheless, they lost further ground on McLaren in third, who scored twelve points and increased the gap to eleven points.
Fortunately, the team doesn’t have to wait too long to make up for F1 traveling to Barcelona this weekend Spanish Grand Prix.
“We’ll be back in action in Spain in just a few days.” Binotto added. “On a very demanding route like the Barcelona-Catalonia route, we have to be prepared down to the smallest detail in order to be able to make the most of our potential throughout the weekend.”
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