Ferrari’s woes continue in 2020 season,After disappointing double header at Red Bull Ring, The famous Red Team struggled for pace during Sunday’s Hungarian GP.And to their embarrassment both cars were lapped by Mercedes. Bad calls from pit wall somewhat compromised Both drivers race.
Ferrari’s Styrian GP upgrades helped them on Saturday as both of their drivers made it to Q3 for the first time in the season.German Qualified in P5 ahead of his team-mate in P6.
Sebastian Vettel drove a solid race, given SF1000 poor performance and bad strategy from team, P6 is best possible result for them. Charles Leclerc struggled whole race for pace, as he finished race in P11,just outside of points for second consecutive race.
Ferrari brought in Charles Leclerc first into pits for new softs during early stages of race instead of German, who was in lead Ferrari on-track clearly shows Ferrari prioritize Leclerc over outgoing Vettel.
Vettel choosing Medium over teams suggested Softs shows four-time champions ability and Experience to read situation on the track. His decision of going for Medium instead of soft proved as difference maker.
After three races,Charles Leclerc holds P7 in Drivers Championship Standings with 18 points and Sebastian Vettel is in P10 with 9 points. Ferrari holds P5 in constructors title with 27 points.
Drivers Reactions
Sebastian Vettel #5
“This was a better performance compared to my first race in Austria. However, in the early stages we might have done a bit better if I’d taken more of a gamble and come in for dry tyres on lap 3 instead of 4. As it was, I lost a lot of time, having to let other cars come down pit lane before I could be released. But in the end, fifth or sixth was the most we could have done.
Towards the end, I was struggling with the tyres and even if I would have loved to have put up more of a fight, there wasn’t much I could do to keep Alex (Albon) behind me. We are not where we want to be just now, but at least we did everything we could today.”
Charles Leclerc #16
“It was a very complicated race. I’m not sure what happened, because we didn’t make changes to the car, but it was extremely hard to drive, as the balance was so much worse than Friday and Saturday, when it was actually better than expected. It just didn’t feel like the same car.
We need to look further into that to try and understand, as I was struggling a lot. We stopped for Softs a bit earlier than others and maybe it was a bit too optimistic. But it was a good call and I managed a few quick laps, but there was only one dry line so I could not overtake and, with hindsight the Soft was not the best choice. After that we were just slow. There’s lot of work ahead of us.”
Mattia Binotto Team Principal
“An extremely disappointing Sunday and the result is very hard to swallow. In qualifying, we had got the most out of the car as it is at the moment, but in the race that was not the case. To be lapped is very painful for us and our fans.
Now we return home after this very long trip and we have to try everything we can to improve as much as possible in every area. Everyone will have to analyse their work and have the courage to change course if necessary, because the current dynamic is unacceptable. There is no other solution to fix this situation.”
