Scuderia Ferrari Spanish driver Carlos Sainz is confident he will soon be able to match his teammate Charles Leclerc also in qualifying and not just in race pace. Carlos failed to reach the final segment of qualifying for the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, but believes he had the pace to match team mate Charles Leclerc, who took fourth on the grid.
Charels Leclerc was slower than Sainz in Q1, but then had an advantage of almost four tenths of a second in Q2 that put him in third place. Sainz narrowly missed out on progressing to the top 10 shoot-out by 0.061 seconds in 11th place.
Sainz said he’s been able to match Leclerc through individual corners, but wasn’t able to put his best together over a single lap.
“It is tight, but I know where those three tenths are,” he said. “I’m obviously disappointed to miss out on it because I just didn’t put, during the whole qualifying, a good lap together. I was a bit all over the place. I couldn’t really put the sectors together, the corners together. I am fast in each corner, but just to put them all together in the same lap is what I’m struggling at the moment. It’s a high-confidence track, a track where you need to have the car underneath you. And probably it exposed a bit more that I still need a bit of mileage and a bit of time to put those laps together that I used to do in the McLaren.”
“Charles is a very good driver, but at the same time if there is something I have seen in these first two races it is that I am not slower than him. There is no corner where Charles was faster than me,” Carlos Sainz added. “The problem is putting together ten fast corners in the same lap.” – the Spanish driver concluded.
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