The Scuderia endured a dismal Zandvoort outing, with Sainz classifying fifth as team-mate Charles Leclerc retired attributable to flooring harm.
This got here after the Monegasque crashed in qualifying, with each drivers complaining that the SF-23 machine was skittish on the restrict and so they had “zero concept” how it might behave.
Ferrari has promised an all-new automobile idea for 2024 and is assured the problems are absolutely understood. Subsequently, Sainz says, the workforce should simply perservere with the automobile for the remainder of the time period.
He instructed Sky Sports activities: “Don’t get me mistaken, now we have began to grasp what it’s [with the handling] however there may be little or no margin to appropriate it now that the automobile is constructed and the automobile is just about executed and developed.
“We all know we have to change issues for subsequent yr however for this yr, circuits like Zandvoort and windy circumstances and excessive downforce tracks, we’re merely going to be gradual.”
Carlos Sainz, Ferrari
Photograph by: Ferrari
The Spaniard added that regardless of the tempo deficit (he led the workforce’s Dutch Grand Prix qualifying cost in sixth however was 1.187 seconds adrift of polesitter Max Verstappen), confidence must be taken from how the Ferrari drivers had been in a position to battle with quicker vehicles in a frenetic rain-hit race.
He stated: “We had been combating with vehicles that had been quite a bit faster than us the entire weekend.“It was only a entire race of combating via, getting the calls proper… our tempo was nowhere close to that [to earn fifth place].
“It means we executed the race properly; we did all the things properly.
“I’m pleased with the end result, not pleased with how a lot I struggled and the way tough it was on the market for us.”
Sainz reckoned Ferrari may match its podium end from Spa because the workforce contests its residence race at low-downforce Monza this weekend.
Anticipating a return to a “regular place”, Sainz stated: “For Monza, I count on higher issues as a result of in Spa, we had been quite a bit faster than we had been [in Zandvoort] and I feel actually, at low-downforce tracks, we must be higher and we must be again to our regular place.”
Workforce boss Fred Vasseur added: “What we are able to count on is from one weekend to the opposite, even when [Verstappen] is at all times on the prime of the record, between P2 and P12 is a totally totally different order.
“At Spa, we had been in excellent form. [Zandvoort] was a bit harder for us even when the potential was higher than the end result.
“Every weekend now, now we have to start out from scratch and no person can say earlier than who’s in entrance.
“With this sort of convergence of efficiency, each single element on the method – driver administration, tyre administration and so forth – could make a distinction larger than the distinction of the bundle.”
Further reporting by Kevin Scheuren