Scuderia Ferrari went into Grand Prix Sunday at Silverstone with excessive hopes of a powerful outcome as Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Jr. began fourth and fifth on the grid, however it was not the day they envisaged as they might solely end ninth and tenth.
It was evident early that the tempo of the 2 SF-23’s was not so good as the staff would have favored, with Leclerc dropping off the again of the main trio up entrance. It obtained worse for the Monegasque driver, who pitted for brand new exhausting compound tyres only a handful of laps earlier than the security automobile was deployed to retrieve the stranded automobile of Kevin Magnussen from the Wellington Straight.
An extra pit cease beneath the security automobile to modify to the medium tyre meant he was combating on the backside finish of the highest ten, and he finally ended the British Grand Prix in ninth place.
“We lacked tempo at the moment and it was a troublesome race,” stated Leclerc. “We stopped early and misplaced some positions as I struggled to get an excellent rhythm on the Hards.
“Then we stopped once more, for a brand new set of Mediums, and I made up a few positions on the restart, however then obtained caught in a DRS prepare behind Alex (Albon).”
Leclerc says Ferrari might want to evaluation the race to grasp why the tempo they confirmed in Qualifying didn’t translate into a greater race.
“Now we have some issues to evaluation, however our primary focus might be to work on our race trim,” he added.
“We weren’t as fast as anticipated” – Carlos Sainz Jr.
Crew-mate Sainz was equally annoyed together with his afternoon, the Spaniard slipping to sixth at first after being handed by Mercedes-AMG Petronas System One Crew’s George Russell earlier than being left to fend off the soft-tyre shod Sergio Pérez on the restart.
The Oracle Pink Bull Racing driver was in a position to get forward, and this left him susceptible to an assault by Williams Racing’s Alexander Albon, who was additionally in a position to slot forward of Sainz and transfer him right down to eighth at flip one. In the identical manoeuvre, he additionally misplaced ninth to his team-mate, however Sainz was in a position to maintain on to the ultimate level within the remaining laps.
He bemoaned the timing of the security automobile intervention because the bunching up of the sphere and the actual fact he was on the exhausting compound made for a troublesome finish to the day.
“It was a troublesome race,” stated Sainz. “We weren’t as fast as anticipated and as a consequence we had been unable to combat with the vehicles forward.
“I managed to increase the stint with the Medium tyres and with the Onerous I used to be quick. Sadly, the Security Automobile got here out on the worst doable time. I did my finest on the restart, however battling on outdated Hards in opposition to different vehicles with more energizing tyres could be very troublesome right here.”
Sainz feels ends in current races have been slipping away from Ferrari, however he is aware of everybody will proceed to push with a view to flip round their fortunes and return to the rostrum.
“I really feel that higher outcomes have been slipping away from us currently, however we’ll preserve working and pushing relentlessly, ranging from the subsequent race in Hungary,” insisted the Spaniard.
