Mattia Binotto, Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc did not hide on the eve of the Bahrain Grand Prix. The team principal and the Ferrari drivers all agreed in defining the victory the goal of the Scuderia di Maranello in Sakhir. La Rossa has not won in F1 since the 2019 Singapore Grand Prix with Sebastian Vettel – positive result at Covid-19 and therefore absent in Bahrain, in his place Hulkenberg – and inside the box of men in red (black in this 2022) there is great determination to put Ferrari back in front of everyone.
Starting immediately with a success in Bahrain is therefore the goal of Charles Leclerc and Ferrari, with the Monegasque underlining an important aspect: “Ferrari will be more competitive in recent years, that’s for sure, second place would already be a great improvement after two very difficult years for the team, but we are not satisfied. Furthermore, in the first two or three races, the pilot can make the difference. Then I expect that there will be a leveling up in terms of performance “explained the class of 1997 to the microphones of Sky Sport 24.
Red Bull dropped the mask on the last day of testing both in terms of flying laps – Verstappen was the fastest – and showing a decidedly fast and constant race pace. Leclerc also expects to see the Mercedes at the level it deserves, the Ferrari color bearer doesn’t believe a W13 in trouble as it is being painted in the light of not-so-sparkling winter tests: “On the last day, Mercedes also set times in line with the best. They are very good at hiding. The question is not if they will reach the top, but how long it will take, for example in the tests I expected them to be as fast as on the third day already a little early ”.
In the next few days, F1 teams and drivers will finally discover how much margin their opponents have kept in their pockets. If in the final race Leclerc will have the opportunity to attack a driver to win the victory he will not back down, if the driver in question were Sainz, however, the attack will be carried out with caution: “Even if I were in front of Verstappen I would have no qualms, for me the riders are all the same when they are in front of me, the situation changes only when it comes to attacking Carlos. We know that we are a team and that we must not run into collisions ”.
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