For Ferrari to win in Formula One, it needs to stop gifting points to Mercedes. Things could start to change at this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix. The Italian side dominated the race last year, securing a 1-2 finish with Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen.
As is customary here, activity starts one day earlier at the Monaco Grand Prix. Scuderia Ferrari drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel, together with the whole team, are preparing for a challenge that is very different to any other racing weekend on the calendar: “The whole weekend here in Monaco is a big challenge” – confirms Kimi, as reported by the Maranello team’s official website.
“This is such a tricky place that even if you are the fastest it doesn’t guarantee you a win; there are so many things that can happen, and you might not have time to react. All those things make it pretty difficult. This is a special weekend, you need to build up to it a little bit more than on a normal circuit. Tomorrow we’ll start with the practice, then we’ll make the car how we want it to be. The track changes a lot over practice, qualifying and the race. We need to follow these changes, making sure that we’ll have the right set-up to be able to push when it’s time to do so. You need to trust your car and have a good feeling. In testing we already tried the Hypersoft compound, but obviously the conditions in Barcelona were completely different. For sure they gave more grip. It’s impossible to know where we are going to be, but we’ll start tomorrow and go through the normal program. We’ll try to do well.” – the Finnish driver concluded.
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