“Being at the front and fighting at the top was our goal at the beginning of the season and we can feel satisfied”explained Binotto, even though he recognized that “keeping the level high during such a long championship will be a great challenge, although not only for us, but for all the teams”.
With two podiums in the first two races of the year (he adds eight in the same number of seasons in the top category), the Spaniard Carlos Sainz Now he bets to celebrate his first victory in the Formula 1 in his second season as pilot of Ferrari.
“I continue to pursue that dream, which is obviously to win my first race in the category. I would like to achieve a victory and the rest will be seen”said Sáinz when emphasizing that “I want to become world champion, but for that you need to win races”.
“It’s the idea with which I go to bed and wake up every day. I hope that victory will finally come”completed the Spanish by confessing: “I have been ready for a long time for that to happen and I was close to achieving it once or twice and if you give me the right machine, I will achieve it.”
In reference to the rivals, in addition to the Monegasque charles leclerchis teammate who celebrated his third victory in Formula 1 at the start of the season in Bahrain and leads the championship with a 12-point advantage over the Spaniard, sainz he said “really impressed by the cars of Red Bull and Mercedes”.
“Even more so considering that they spent less time than us in the wind tunnel”highlighted the Iberian driver, even though the Austrian team saw its two drivers abandon a few laps from the end and the German did not have a very encouraging start to the championship.
Red Bull at least got the thorn out of it with world champion Max Verstappen’s victory in Jeddah, which allowed the Dutchman to celebrate his 21st win in the top flight.
One field away, the seven-time British world champion Lewis Hamilton, who celebrated 103, rules in that category, although things did not start as he expected this season, nor for Mercedes.
“We don’t have a magic bullet, but in the factory they are working day and night for next weekend’s race in the hope of being able to get closer to Ferrari and Red Bull.”confessed the head of Mercedes, Toto Wolff, who does not look too excited in the previous one.
“We will try to take advantage of every opportunity that comes our way and collect as many points as possible with the package we have”added Wolff, according to which “Hamilton and George Russell are also working hard on the simulator to guide the team’s technicians and engineers.”
“It is clear that our performances at the moment are below expectations, but we are all working to find a solution to the problems that afflict us. In the meantime, we will try to have the best possible weekend in Australia, many years after the last visit.”assured.
In the past two seasons, the Grand Prix in Melbourne was canceled due to the pandemic, for which the last to celebrate there is still Mercedes, which in 2019 celebrated the triumph of the Finn Valtteri Bottas, today an Alfa Romeo driver.
The German team also claimed victory in 2014 and 2016 with Nico Rosberg and in 2015 with Hamilton, who had also won in 2008, but as a McLaren-Mercedes driver.
In 2017 and 2018 the triumph was in the hands of the German Sebastian Vettel, four-time world champion who at that time competed with Ferrari, who in 2011 won with Red Bull and who today runs in Aston Martin.
Vettel will make his official debut this season as he missed the first two Grand Prix of the year due to having contracted Covid-19, which is why he had to be replaced by his compatriot Nico Huelkenberg (who did not score points).
“This is like when you’re late for school,” Vettel compared what happened when he confessed that he feels very anxious to get out on the track and remember that “starting the season in Australia is not new to me”, as this Grand Prix used to open the calendar.
Who also can’t wait to get back on the road is Verstappen after his victory in Jeda: “I really want to race in Melbourne again. It’s been a while since we last did it.”
“The atmosphere is always beautiful at Albert Park and it will be interesting to see how they refurbished the track, which I presume will be very different, especially in the Turn 6 sector, where the most significant change was made,” said the Dutchman.
“I think this will give more opportunities to overtake and it will be interesting to see how the machine behaves here. I hope to see another weekend without problems. We’ll see what happens on Sunday,” he added.
Verstappen adds 25 units, 20 less than the leader Leclerc and eight below Sáinz, while he is three ahead of the British George Russell and nine ahead of Hamiltontwo who also hope to have their revenge in Melbourne to add even more excitement to the championship.
Source: Ambito
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