Ferrari is hoping to make use of free apply on the British Grand Prix to search out additional solutions as to why its Method 1 upgrades have not but translated into efficiency.
Ever since successful the Monaco Grand Prix with Charles Leclerc, Ferrari has slipped behind Mercedes within the pecking order regardless of a sizeable improve package deal in Spain.
Whereas the brand new elements have introduced some enhancements, they’ve additionally induced bouncing in high-speed corners, which Leclerc and team-mate Carlos Sainz have recognized as their fundamental concern, and that has negated among the efficiency enhancements.
Provided that Austria was a dash weekend with only one free apply session, Ferrari hopes to make use of the British Grand Prix’s conventional format to dig deeper into why its automobile isn’t behaving as anticipated by doing back-to-back exams between the 2 automobiles.
“We revert to the usual format this weekend, which suggests we now have three hours of free apply wherein to discover a set-up that enables us to use the advantages that the brand new elements ought to ship,” staff boss Fred Vasseur stated.
“Realizing how finest to arrange the automobile can even have a much bigger impact on lap time than the particular advantages of any new parts.”
Ferrari’s plans might be dashed by the British climate in Silverstone, with wet situations on Friday morning probably derailing its take a look at programme.
“If it rains [too much], then possibly the take a look at that we needed to do between each automobiles to substantiate just a few issues should be postponed to the following race,” Leclerc stated on Thursday.
Carlos Sainz, Scuderia Ferrari Charles Leclerc, Scuderia Ferrari , with Sky television presenters taking part in soccer
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“Nonetheless, we’re nonetheless making an attempt to work out the place we have to arrange the automobile with a purpose to maximise the potential of these upgrades, as a result of the numbers that we had been anticipating from this improve are there.
“So, the improve is working the best way it must be, but it surely’s extra about the place you run the automobile to optimise these numbers that we see. For now, we’ve not fairly managed to try this, so we’re nonetheless engaged on that.”
Sainz added: “We settle for and we realise that since Barcelona, we now have been much less aggressive than earlier than Barcelona. This clearly raises our issues on the package deal a bit and we have to attempt to perceive as a lot as doable every thing concerned with it.
“Bouncing 100% prices you time. What I believe is that it prices you much more time than what you suppose.”