Sainz was slow even with no close cars ahead.LM10 wrote: ↑19 Mar 2023, 22:21Some interesting words from Sainz. In short, he’s saying that the race pace is the big problem, but especially when they’re in dirty air. The car is doing exactly what they’re seeing in the wind tunnel (which is good news) and they know what they need to do to solve their issues. He seems to be convinced that their developments will change their season.
Sainz: "Right now, we're not where we want to be in terms of race pace, in terms of car in general the balance even in dirty air following. We just struggled a bit, and if we already overheat the tyres in clean air then imagine following, we just eat them alive."
Sainz: "And we need clean air to produce some kind of decent lap times. So yeah, we know exactly our weaknesses. Obviously we cannot do magic to bring the developments early. But I know the team is pushing flat out to bring them and this will improve our race pace for sure."
Sainz: "The thing is that the car is doing exactly the same as in the wind tunnel. So we know where the weakness is in the wind tunnel, where the weakness is here. We know where to develop the car."
Sainz: "We just need time because from the weakness that we saw in Bahrain and we see here, obviously, we cannot bring the upgrades as soon as tomorrow, but I'm positive that this team is capable of bringing them early in the season. And this could change completely our season."
Sainz: "We know already our performance timings more or less when they're going to come, our developments. I cannot reveal right now. But we know when they're coming. We know what they are targeting. And we know that they should help."