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The team Ferrari I had a lot of optimism Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix 2024a weekend that, on paper, would be just as good for them as the Japanese Grand Prix due to the characteristics of the SF-24, but it was very different than what they thought. Since Friday, something didn’t work and they struggled to extract the potential they believed they had in their car, even their director, Fred Vasseuradmitted that they expected something more.
Their starting positions in both races were not the bestand they fell further behind than they were used to with their fast car in a single turn, but they had hopes of recovering everything in the long runs, something that did not happen, and everything became even more complicated with the fight of Charles Leclerc y Carlos Sainz on Sunday’s start, in which they lost position with Nico Hulkenberg.
See how the 2024 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix race went:
“First of all, we started from sixth and seventh position, we had to do a better job in qualifying,” indicated the head of the team in the microphones of Sky Sports F1. “Then we did a good first stint on the medium tyres. There was a good conservative approach to tire management and we were in a good position at the time, but it was difficult to warm up and we struggled throughout the stint.”
“It’s not a matter of half a second, but a tenth or a tenth and a half. We have to understand why we were better with the medium tire and struggled with the hard one,” he said. “In general, the real problem has been starting from sixth and seventh position, because then it is difficult to come back, you end up in dirty air, you lose ground. We have to pay attention to the classification.”
“Charles [Leclerc] “He had a strange race, because he started with a two-stop strategy, then he only made one, so he was in the middle between deciding between pushing and being conservative, and in the end we paid the price,” he said. “We had a good pace on Saturday “We were not far from Red Bull, but we have to understand why today was like that.”
“I think yesterday’s pace in the sprint was a little better than Norris’s. Today we did the same race as Pérez, and we were not far from Norris, but perhaps they interpreted the hard ones better, while with the medium ones we had a good batch, because at first we were a little conservative and then we managed to recover,” he explained.
The truth is that Ferrari expected something moreespecially in terms of speed during Sunday in the circuito de Shanghai: “I don’t know if we expected more in terms of position because we started from behind on the grid, but we expected something more in terms of pace. It is clear that today we lacked it, and we have to understand why in order to progress for the next race “
As Fred Vasseur noted, It is not a question of improvements. It is clear that some technical updates would help, but this weekend not even McLaren brought substantial news, but Ferrari is also working behind the scenes to provide new elements to improve the performance of the SF-24.
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