Carlos Sainz Believes Ferrari Stands No Chance Against Mighty Red Bull After Back to Back 1–2 Finish in 2023 F1 Season

Sabyasachi Biswas | 21/03/2023
Carlos Sainz Believes Ferrari Stands No Chance Against Mighty Red Bull After Back to Back 1–2 Finish in 2023 F1 Season

Carlos Sainz believes Ferrari has got no chance against the powerful and fast Red Bull in the 2023 F1 season. After they picked up back-to-back 1-2 in Bahrain and Jeddah in the first two races of the season, the Spanish driver believes the Austrian team is currently unstoppable.

As per Formel1.de, the Spaniard said that he didn’t hold back much in the first part of the race. Since he started the race from P4, he did not have to tussle with Sergio Perez.

However, it was Max Verstappen’s RB-19 that overtook Sainz with ease. As Verstappen zoomed past him in the race, the 28-year-old shared that the RB-19 flies on the track.

The defending champions won 20 out of 25 possible races across three seasons. With Verstappen and Perez on the wing, the Austrian team is already miles ahead of everyone else in 2023.

The Milton-Keynes-based team has 49 points advantage against Mercedes and Aston Martin. Whereas it already has a 61 points gap to the Prancing Horse after two races.

Sainz finds no positives in Saudi Arabia

For two back-to-back races, Ferrari didn’t have the race they wanted. Even though they didn’t have any DNF in Jeddah and managed double points, star driver Sainz feels the team has nothing to take from the Middle Eastern race.

The Italian team finished the race with Sainz and Leclerc in P6 and P7, respectively. Starting from P4 and P12, the team from Maranello had better expectations from the second race of the season.

The Spanish driver emphasized that the SF-23s lacked race pace compared to the top contenders. Leclerc, the other team driver, also felt that they were not good enough. Leaving aside Red Bull, the Aston Martins of Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll were tough to catch.

The Smooth Operator feels Ferrari has lots to work

Despite sky-high expectations, the team from Maranello failed to live up to them. What is regarded as the season to dethrone Red Bull, the Italian team is struggling to keep up with Aston Martin?

As the situation of the team is not in a pleasant state, Sainz feels the team has lots of work to do. The Smooth Operator feels the Prancing Horse needs to work on their race pace to stay in contention with the top teams.

Furthermore, he also focused on the extreme tire degradation they have been facing lately. This has proven to be a big disadvantage in the race, and the 28-year-old feels the team needs to pull up their socks before it’s too late.

Post Edited By: Tanish Chachra
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Sabyasachi Biswas

Sabyasachi Biswas is an F1 journalist at The SportsRush. With over one and a half decades of love for the sport and five years of experience in the field, he dreams to be a regular at the paddock when the lights go out. A Red Bull fan and F1 fan in general over the years, he enjoyed watching Felipe Massa, Sebastian Vettel, and Max Verstappen dominate the track. Apart from F1, he's also a big-time Madridista and Federer fanatic. He was a sub-junior level footballer, won inter-district quizzes and debate competitions back in school. A travel freak throughout, he tries different cuisines and learns new cultures whenever he's away from the keyboard.

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