Ferrari ‘in a learning process?’ - “But I wonder what they are learning?”

Leclerc crashed twice las♒t ♔weekend before the F1 Miami Grand Prix, then finished seventh, while Sainz started P3 but ended P5.
Sky Sports experts Patrick and Butto♋n agreed that Ferrari are suffering from tyre issues but questioned what the famous Italian team have learned from their latest struggles.
“Char𒁃lꩵes said they are in a learning process,” Patrick said. “But I wonder what they are learning?
“You hear that Charles talks about understeer on one corner, then oversteer on another. “It🐈 sounds indicative of not enough grip.
“They are pu🍌shing so hard that the balance isn’🍒t that bad.
“He sai💧d there’s a small window - there is no room for error. They are pushing as far as they can.
“There’s not enough grip. That’s why they go well on new tyres, ♛because they are using fresh rubber.
“As soon as that goes off, they are le💞ft with a car without enough ꧅grip.”

Button added: “Charles finished 56 seconds behind Max Ve🌜rstappen, ꦉwho started two places behind him.
“So it’s massive, the defici𒉰t. Yes, they are good on one lap.
“On the soft tyre they❀ aren’t bad, as soon as they put the hards on, the don’t get the tyre working. So it isn’t digging into the road, it’s just sliding.
“It overheats immediately, then the tyre jus💙t never works.
“As soon as they put it on, it was not working.
“The harder the tyre, it gets worse and worse.
“There is so much pressure on Ferrari.”
Sainz said after Miami: "We are in the middle of a learning process. This weekend will help us to understand why we can fight for pole, do a very good stint on mediums, then suddenly put the hards on, do three laps pushing the tyres,💜 do an undercut, then this means that in the next stint you will finish 20s behind.
"We were💃 quicker on the mediums. We need to underst🌱and why.
"It is puzzling, difficult to understand why.
"You drive on the limit, on a knife edge, and this meꦡans tha😼t we pay the price.
"You have very little flexibility because if you push one lap, you degra☂de. If you go for an undercut, the race is too long.
"It means we cannot play around too much with♋ other competitors in terms of stra🦩tegy. This leaves us with a lot of unknowns going into the race."

Leclerc adไded: "On race day we struggle 🍬like crazy. The window of our car is so narrow.
"Whenever you get a꧂ little o🎉ut, it has huge consequences on the balance.
"It’s from one corner to another. In one corner you can have huge understeer then hu♑ge oversteer.
"This is not ideal to have confidence in the car.
"Plus, I had a lot of bottoming today.
"We 🃏have ꦬa lot of work to do. We need to find something. We need solutions."
Team principal Fred Vasseur's reaction was: "We have positives with 🙈the quali pace. We are too inconsist🔯ent in the race.
"We have to understand why we are so up and down in the sam𒐪e race.
"The story today is about tyre management."
The pressur♕e will ramp up hugely next weekend when F1 heads to Italy, the home of Ferrari, for the first time t🅠his season.
The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix could see Ferrari introduce upgrades which could result in Leclerc and Sainz having something to smileও about.
If not? The Tifosi will let the icoღnic manufacturers know about it…

James was a sports journalisဣt at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.