In the round-up: Carlos Sainz Jnr feels hopeful about Ferrari’s upgrades for this weekend in Hungary.
In brief
Sainz hopes floor upgrade will “revert” slump
Sainz hopes that Ferrari can begin to turn their slump in form around with a revised floor at the Hungaroring this weekend. He revealed the team have made “a very small modification in the floor that we’re hoping that could help with the issues that we’ve been battling with recently.”
The team has experienced an increase in bouncing in high-speed corners since introducing its new floor design at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix.
“Whether it will work or not, we need a bit of time to see,” Sainz continued. “We need this weekend, probably, to make the analysis.
“The team is pushing flat-out to revert the situation, because clearly we’ve been out-developed by our competitors and now we are trying to fight back and get ourselves back in the mix.”
Albon has “low expectations” for Williams
Despite scoring his team’s second top ten finish of the season at their home grand prix at Silverstone, Alexander Albon doubts Williams will be able to compete for points again in Hungary.
“I don’t think it’s a circuit that should suit us,” Albon admitted in Thursday’s press conference.
“It’s kind of a little bit like Barcelona: Hot, a bit more about pure downforce. I think it’s a good test for us. We’ve come up with some new options and new ideas coming from Barcelona and thinking about how we want to address some of our issues. We’ll just go out there in FP1, try a few things and see if it works.”
IndyCar at Iowa “like Moto GP on dirt” – Palou
After describing IndyCar’s two races at Iowa last weekend as “boring”, Alex Palou says that the repaving job on the circuit heavily impacted the ability for drivers to race on the oval.
“Even when leading, being in the middle of the pack – the IndyCars we had, the package of IndyCar tyres, aero, engine, whatever we had on track this weekend – it was impossible to make it run,” Palou said.
“It was never an issue before. It was a repave for our cars. But having that said, we’ve seen other series here run well. It’s like putting a Moto GP on dirt. It’s a cool track, but you cannot put it on the same and expect a very nice race.”
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