Ferrari searching for repair for high-speed bouncing with early improve · F1 · RaceFans

Ferrari are “pushing flat out” to introduce an improve sooner than deliberate to repair the high-speed bouncing which has held them again in latest races.

Carlos Sainz Jnr stated the workforce has recognized the issue in latest races on the Purple Bull Ring and Circuit de Catalunya which embrace a number of fast corners. With extra of the identical coming on the subsequent rounds, Ferrari are exhausting at work on a repair.

“I see the manufacturing unit pushing flat out to grasp the troubles that we’ve hit within the final couple of weekends and making an attempt to convey already for Silverstone a package deal that permits us to carry out a bit higher within the high-speed corners as a result of it’s clearly been our weak point,” he stated.

Max Verstappen’s efficiency benefit by means of the faster corners was significantly noticeable in qualifying, stated Sainz.

“Max was a lot faster by means of there, however not solely Max, additionally Mercedes and McLaren had been a transparent step forward of us in these sort of corners. And we all know Silverstone is the king of the high-speed, so we have to do a step.

“Clearly, we wish to be aggressive there. And we’re going to battle the whole lot we will and attempt to discover the whole lot we will to make ourselves extra aggressive there.”

He admitted the workforce needed to compromise its set-up final weekend in an effort to maintain the bouncing underneath management in qualifying.

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“Within the race it’s much less of an issue since you carry much less velocity into these high-speed corners,” he stated. “The automotive rolls much less and you’ve got much less bouncing as a consequence.

“However clearly, when you have it in quali, it’s important to arrange the automotive in a different way for qualifying after which most likely you pay the value within the race. So it’s not a super scenario. It doesn’t make you good in quali and it doesn’t make you good within the race.

“Now we have been speaking loads about bouncing the final couple of weekends, which reveals that it’s been a little bit of a problem, however I imagine there’s additionally different issues that we have to enhance in an effort to at the least beat Mercedes in Silverstone and attempt to get again nearer to McLaren and Purple Bull.”

Talking forward of the final race, Sainz’s workforce mate Charles Leclerc stated he thought the workforce was extra constrained by its efficiency in slower corners.