Scuderia Ferrari Spanish driver Carlos Sainz reflects on the performance in Abu Dhabi and gives his overall impressions on the 2022 F1 season, focusing on where Ferrari needs to improve to challenge for the title in 2023.
“I think it’s been, in the end, a good season for the team. You need to think where we were coming from the last two seasons. To be back fighting for wins, getting into the championship, I think is overall a good season. I know we did plenty of mistakes and we didn’t develop as well as Mercedes and Red Bull, which are things we take on board for next season. Now that we are back fighting at the top, we know the two or three things that we need to improve. Clearly Red Bull is just simply a more solid package where it works well at every circuit, whereas we were a bit more circuit dependent, in the second half of the season especially. I think the first half we were quick everywhere, but in the second half we simply didn’t develop enough. The others have clearly out developed us, especially Merc, and also a bit Red Bull. That’s how it goes, it’s Formula 1, it’s the first year of the team back fighting for wins, so we also got to see the level at which Red Bull are and what we need to do next year if we want to beat them.”
Here is his full interview for Sky Sports F1:
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