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

Leclerc crashed twice last weekend before the F1 Miami Grand Prix, then finished seventh, while Sainz s🔜tarted P3 but ended P5.
Sky🅺 Spo🌄rts experts Patrick and Button agreed that Ferrari are suffering from tyre issues but questioned what the famous Italian team have learned from their latest struggles.
“Charles said they are in a🦹 learning process,” Patrick saꦏid. “But I wonder what they are learning?
“You hear that Charles talks about understeer on one corner, then ove💞rsteer on another. “It sounds indicative of not eno꧋ugh grip.
“They are pushing so hard that the balance isn’t ෴that bad.
“He said there’s a small window - there is no room for error. They are pushing as far as the𓆉y can.
“There’s not enough grip. That’s 🌱why they go well on new tyres, because they are usin𒁏g fresh rubber.
“As soon as that g🍒oes off, they are left with a car without enough grip.”

Butt💟on added: “Charles finished 56 seconds behiඣnd Max Verstappen, who started two places behind him.
“So it’s massive, the de𝓡ficit. 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 worki♏ng. So it isn’t digging into the road, it’s just sliding.
“It overheats immediately🧔, then the ty🧸re just 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 wh🔜y 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 ꦐquicker on the mediums. We need to understand why.
"It is puzzling, difficult to understand why.
"You drive on the limit, on a knife edge, and this means that we pay 🐎the price.
"You have very little flexibility because if you push one lap, you degrad✱e. If you go for an undercut, the race is too long.
"It means we cannot play aro🌊und too much with other competitors in terms of strategy. Thi𒐪s leaves us with a lot of unknowns going into the race."

Leclerc added: "On race day we strug🔯gle like crazy. The window of our car is so narrow.
"Whenever you get a littܫle out, it has huge consequences on the balance.
"It’s from onꦅe corner to another. In one corner you can have huge understeer then huge overওsteer.
"This is not ideal to have confidence in the car.
"Plus, I had a lot of bottoming today.
"We have a 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 pa𝔉ce. We are too inconsistent in the race.
"We🔯 have to understand why we are so up and down in the s𒆙ame race.
"The story today is about tyre management."
The pressure will ramp up hugely next we🌊ekend when F1 heads to Italy, the home of Ferrari, for the first time this season.
The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix could see Fer🅠rari introduce upgrades which could result in Leclerc and Sainz having something to smile about.
If not? The Tifosi will let the iconic manufac🎐turer✃s know about it…

James was a sports journalist at Sky Spor🎐ts for a decade covering everything from American sports, ❀to football, to F1.