Ferrari are “pushing flat out” to introduce an upgrade earlier than planned to fix the high-speed bouncing which has held them back in recent races.
Carlos Sainz Jnr said the team has identified the problem in recent races at the Red Bull Ring and Circuit de Catalunya which include several quick corners. With more of the same coming at the next rounds, Ferrari are hard at work on a fix.
“I see the factory pushing flat out to understand the troubles that we’ve hit in the last couple of weekends and trying to bring already for Silverstone a package that allows us to perform a bit better in the high-speed corners because it’s clearly been our weakness,” he said.
Max Verstappen’s performance advantage through the quicker corners was particularly noticeable in qualifying, said Sainz.
“Max was so much quicker through there, but not only Max, also Mercedes and McLaren were a clear step ahead of us in those type of corners. And we know Silverstone is the king of the high-speed, so we need to do a step.
“Obviously, we want to be competitive there. And we are going to fight everything we can and try to find everything we can to make ourselves more competitive there.”
He admitted the team had to compromise its set-up last weekend in order to keep the bouncing under control in qualifying.
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“In the race it’s less of a problem because you carry less speed into those high-speed corners,” he said. “The car rolls less and you have less bouncing as a consequence.
“But obviously, if you have it in quali, you have to set up the car differently for qualifying and then probably you pay the price in the race. So it’s not an ideal situation. It doesn’t make you good in quali and it doesn’t make you good in the race.
“We have been talking a lot about bouncing the last couple of weekends, which shows that it’s been a bit of an issue, but I believe there’s also other things that we need to improve in order to at least beat Mercedes in Silverstone and try to get back closer to McLaren and Red Bull.”
Speaking ahead of the last race, Sainz’s team mate Charles Leclerc said he thought the team was more constrained by its performance in slower corners.
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