The SF1000 from Ferrari is not to burn ahead this season, but still stood Charles Leclerc on Sunday during the Grand Prix of the Eifel on the fourth starting position, behind Max Verstappen. In the race, however, he was nowhere near able to maintain this position. “Very strange”, he says Racing Point.
It is a disaster season for Ferrari in Formula 1 this year. Since they have been reprimanded by the FIA, it seems that they have become hard to beat. The Italian team dangles in the middle bracket and has its hands full with teams such as McLaren, Renault, AlphaTauri en Alfa Romeo. Nevertheless, the SF1000 managed to settle on the second row of the grid during qualifying for the Grand Prix of the Eifel. Leclerc was unable to defend this position during the race, however. He dropped back to seventh place. How could he be so fast during qualifying? Racing Point raised eyebrows, says technical director Andrew Green.
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At Racing Point she qualified ninth and twentieth, but that last position says little because it was Hülkenberg who had to get behind the wheel of the pink Mercedes. The qualifying time of Pérez is representative and it was seven tenths behind that of Lecerc. Green thinks it is remarkable. “I think it’s definitely something to look at, in terms of how other teams seem to be finding pace in qualifying on a Saturday afternoon, when we don’t seem to have it. And I think Ferrari is a good example of this. “, he says Racefans.
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Green does not understand how Ferrari could suddenly be so fast on Saturday. “I don’t know where they get that pace on a Saturday afternoon,” he says. He finds it remarkable that the pace then completely disappears on Sunday. “If you look at Sundays, they are more than half a second slower than us, which is very strange. It is certainly something we look at.”
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