Ferrari group boss Fred Vasseur conceded that Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc will race with the pre-Barcelona aerodynamic configuration at tomorrow’s British Grand Prix.
Because it launched a complete package deal of upgrades at Barcelona, Ferrari has suffered from bouncing within the high-speed corners. So extreme had been the problems that the Scuderia got here up with an uncommon programme for the opening day on the British Grand Prix. It concerned amassing information and working comparability exams of various configurations.
The goal was to proceed buying data regarding the behaviour of the updates launched two races in the past in Spain. To offer the group with as a lot information as potential, taking advantage of the truth that the rain held off for nearly the entire two hours of monitor time, it was determined to convey ahead a comparability between pre- and post-Barcelona configurations.
Charles Leclerc ran the automotive in Austria spec, whereas Sainz went again to the one utilized in Canada. With Leclerc having suffered from extreme bouncing and an unpredictable behaviour of his SF-24 yesterday, the group determined to ditch the brand new package deal and revert the Monegasque’s automotive to the older configuration for qualifying and the race.
Ferrari group boss Fred Vasseur acknowledged that the bouncing prompted the Scuderia to take a step again and use the older package deal on each automobiles.
“I feel at the moment we didn’t execute qualifying nicely sufficient and that meant we had been unable to place all the pieces collectively. We determined to maneuver to the outdated spec for at the moment as there was extra bouncing with the brand new one and with the excessive velocity corners we’ve at Silverstone, the trade-off of becoming the brand new elements wasn’t optimistic sufficient.
Talking of at the moment’s qualifying session, Vasseur stated: “In Q2 there have been 9 automobiles in a single tenth and the monitor advanced significantly. Carlos made the minimize to the ultimate half, however Charles made a mistake in flip 13 that meant he didn’t make it to Q3.
“The final part was additionally messy as Carlos was capable of put collectively an honest lap on his first set however then we had been slowed by visitors on the second try and he needed to battle for monitor positions with Oscar Piastri and Fernando Alonso and couldn’t put together the tyres in the precise manner.
“As for the race, I feel that given our grid positions, if it rains then the race is likely to be extra chaotic and that might go well with us higher than a dry afternoon. We have to nail our technique and execute the race completely if we wish to convey residence an honest factors haul.
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