Scuderia Ferrari failed to score a single point at the Paul Ricard Circuit as it surrendered third in the constructors’ championship to McLaren.
Having started in fifth, Carlos Sainz dropped behind both McLarens on-track after the pit stop phase before being overtaken by Fernando Alonso and both Aston Martins to finish 11th.
“It’s quite clear, quite evident that today we must have got something really wrong to be so far off the pace,” Carlos Sainz told Sky Sports F1 at the end of the 2021 French Grand Prix – “It’s a limitation that has appeared in some of the races where we really struggled with the front tyres with graining, with degradation, two times as much as our competitors. Cars that yesterday we were half a second quicker, like the McLarens, or three tenths quicker. I don’t remember. Today, towards the end of the race, they were two seconds faster per lap. So it’s clear that we have a limitation with tyres, with the way we operate the tyres. It is something that we will need to analyse, something we need to try and get better through the season.” – he explained.
It’s not the first time in 2021 Scuderia Ferrari has struggled with its tyres and Carlos Sainz says he noticed a similar issue in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.
“It’s something to be honest I felt immediately when I jumped the car in Bahrain and I felt something was not quite right there. Now, it’s time to get our heads down and work around it as it’s clearly limiting us on race day.” – he Spanish driver concluded.
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