“There is no problem with Carlos Sainz”– Ferrari boss reveals why Spanish race driver struggling in 2022

Tanish Chachra | 26/05/2022
"There is no problem with Carlos Sainz"– Ferrari boss reveals why Spanish race driver struggling in 2022

Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto reveals why Carlos Sainz is struggling with Ferrari’s F1-75 while Charles Leclerc is vying for the championship.

Carlos Sainz didn’t have the easiest start to the season in 2022. With over two DNFs in the last six races, Sainz has slipped to P5 in the drivers’ standings.

Therefore, it wouldn’t be practical for Ferrari to prioritise him in races over Charles Leclerc. But still, Sainz has to improve his performances if Ferrari wants to win the constructors’ title.

Speaking on Sainz’s struggles, Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto doesn’t blame the 27-year-old race driver. He thinks that Sainz has a form of driving that the current car is not providing him.

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Carlos Sainz accepts he’s not entirely settled with the car

Sainz admits that he’s not fully there with the car. He thinks that he has a particular yet detailed problem, and he asks for some privacy over it from the media.

“It’s very specific,” he said. “It’s a lot of detail. It is probably too much to put into an interview or words because I think it also deserves some privacy and some team confidential things.”

“I think you can see from the cameras and from everywhere that I’m not there yet with the car compared to last year, and I’m not bragging naturally that the car is a bit too pointy for my liking.”

“But that’s the way it goes: you can either adapt yourself, or you can bring your car a bit more to your liking. These two things, they take time and they take knowledge and experience. It takes mistakes, it takes trial and error. And this is what I am in the process of now.”

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Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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