Leclerc Admits Ferrari Is "Different" Since Sainz Arrived

Ferrari have had a much stronger start to the 2021 season as opposed to the 2020 season. They are currently in a close battle for third in the championship with McLaren which is a step up from being only the sixth best team last year. One change that the team has undergone has been the arrival of Carlos Sainz as Charles Leclerc’s new teammate. Leclerc has now revealed if Sainz has had a role to play in Ferrari’s recent improvements

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Leclerc Explains If Arrival Of Carlos Sainz Has Led To Ferrari’s Revival

Charles began by looking at the start of the 2020 season

“The first part of 2020 was complicated because we had to accept that we had taken a step back and it is never easy. Then we started to work really well, in a constructive way”

“We immediately saw small progress, even if it is complicated to work miracles. Especially since there were technical restrictions between 2020 and 2021, so we couldn't do what we wanted with the car. But we worked well”

“I may be repeating myself, but this is clearly not where we want to stay, we want to fight for victories. For that, there is still a lot of work. But we are working in the right direction”

He then compared Sebastian Vettel’s time at Ferrari to that of current teammate Carlos Sainz

“With Seb, it was a little different. He had a lot of experience, he knew the team very well when I arrived, which is very new for Carlos. We're both very young, it's his first year at Ferrari”

He also pointed out how the team’s situation is very different now as opposed to when Vettel was there

“There is a lot of enthusiasm, motivation. We are not in the same situation as two or three years ago with Seb where Ferrari was coming out of a period when the team was quite strong and managed to fight for the title”

He then explained why their current situation gives them hope

“We are no longer in a reconstruction phase. There is a lot of motivation to try to get back to where you want to be, which is to fight for the title. Seeing the improvements on the track, it gives us hope”

He summed up his words by revealing if all this improvement is down to the arrival of Carlos Sainz

“Everyone in the team is happy. They want to go back to the track to show the car's progress. It's a little bit different. I don't think it's Carlos especially, but the situation that lends itself to it”
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo has explained how in Monaco during “the run-up to the race [the drivers] walk through the crowd in the pit lane to get to [their] car”

“It's chaotic before you get in your car, so your heart rate is already high and then the track does the rest for you”

“It's the whole aura of boats, people on the circuit and drinking and partying at the end of the day. [He thinks] the lack of that will probably feel a bit empty”

His teammate Lando Norris does not think that his “qualifying has been bad”

He added that “Q1s and Q2s have been very good, and the first run in Q3 has often been very good. But in the second run of Q3 it has gone downhill a bit”

“They all had a reason” which is why he is “not too worried about [his qualifying form]”

Retired F1 driver Ralf Schumacher is of the opinion that Aston Martin driver “Sebastian Vettel's task in the coming races will be to dominate his teammate. He has to as a four-time world champion”

He also thinks that the team “need to support Vettel where they can [and he still believes] Sebastian Vettel will get his act together”

Alpine’s Fernando Alonso has revealed that “in 2020, when [he] made the decision to come back, all the other series were on the table”

And he “thought that Formula 1 was the best challenge in that moment. And the best competition”

He added that “even with the pandemic, the teams are still very strong and in good health economically and on performance side, to produce fantastic cars and a good show”

Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto thinks that Spain saw them closing “the gap to those just ahead of [them]. Achieving that was [their] main aim for the weekend and [they] succeeded”

Ben Pincus, Formula One's head of commercial cooperation has suggested that “whilst it’s usually the cars that grab the attention, it’s the people behind the machines that make the sport what it is”

“There’s no sport in the world where human decision-making and innovation are more important, and through [their] partnership with Workday, [they’ll] bring those values to life”

Which is why a new award will be presented after the Grands Prix from now on: the Workday Agility Award

This award will be handed to the team that made the best, split-second decision during the race
Who will win the intra-team battle at Aston Martin? Vettel or Stroll?

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