According to both Ferrari and Mercedes, big progress on the competitiveness of their respective 2023 cars is just around the corner. “Because of the type of track Jeddah is, we expected to be faster than Mercedes and Aston Martin. “We know what the car’s weakness is – we overheat the tyres. But we do that on our own so you can imagine that when we are behind another car it’s even worse. “But I trust Ferrari, I trust that we are going to improve the car and we have the ability to do it. When asked to outline specifically what’s wrong with the car, Sainz smiled: “We know what it is.”.

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