“Ferrari and McLaren will rise again”. Thus the Red Bull team principal Christian Horner he had declared a few weeks ago that he expected other rivals in the 2022 world championship run-up in addition to Mercedes. The Ferrari did indeed recover as evidenced by the double scored yesterday in Bahrain, McLaren instead gave good impressions in Barcelona in the very first days of testing, but in Bahrain enormous cooling problems emerged from the tests that forced the MCL36 to a run as a supporting actor, which has moved the hands of time back several years to the times of the great difficulties experienced in the first years of the partnership with Honda which lasted from 2015 to 2017.
Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris finished in 14th and 15th position, very far from the points area that was the desired goal despite a disappointing Qualifying Saturday. In the race, on the other hand, the situation even worsened with the drivers forced to abandon the clean trajectory in the stretches in order not to overheat the vital components of the single-seater built in Woking. “We have problems that do not allow us to be competitive at the moment – explained the team principal Andreas Seidl – during the race we had to manage some parameters related to the car to avoid technical knockouts and this slowed us down. I thank Lando and Daniel who fought with all their strength. We will analyze the situation to find the necessary remedies as soon as possible “.
“Obviously the performance offered is very far from our objectives – the analysis of Lando Norris – we will analyze the data and try to recover something in view of Jeddah. It was a long and difficult race, we gave our all, but at the moment our performance is simply highly insufficient “. Less severe in judgment Daniel Ricciardowhich has substantially recovered the experience not accumulated in the tests in the race: “The goal was to finish the race and we did it, reaching the finish line was important to better understand the car. Our weaknesses are quite clear to me, we will work to fill the gaps that currently separate us from the stables we were used to fighting with ”.
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