Sainz admits admiration for Leclercs form amid his own struggles with 2022 Ferrari

Carlos Sainz admits he is finding the 2022 Ferrari tougher to momentum than Charles Leclerc and admires how well his teammate is performing in it.

Leclerc has taken four pole positions and won twice so far this season, with a third victory slipping through his fingers when he was forced to retire from the lead due to reliability issues in the Spanish Grand Prix. Sainz, on the other hand, qualified third and dropped out of the points-paying positions when he spun off early on. He recovered to finish fourth but still sits 39 points roaming of his teammate.

“I alimony the positivity and the motivation to turn things virtually as soon as possible,” Sainz said. “It’s not been easy. You can probably see from the onboards and from the mistakes that I’m struggling quite a bit to momentum this car and to understand how to pericope the maximum out of it.

“It has given me a whole new rencontre in my Formula 1 career and I’m having to think outside the box, momentum outside the box, and with this comes mistakes, comes learning things that I’m having to learn.

“There’s been a combination of misfortune and mistakes from my side, which moreover counts, but I think in the future it’s going to turn all of a sudden or it’s going to turn little by little and I just need to alimony my throne down.

“It’s very specific, it’s a lot of detail — probably just too much to put into an interview or put into words considering I think it moreover deserves some privacy and team confidentiality. I think you can see from the cameras that I’m not there yet with the car compared to last year, that I’m not driving naturally, that the car is a bit too pointy for my liking but that’s it, it is the way it goes. You can either transmute yourself or you can bring your car a bit increasingly to your liking.

“Anyway these two things take time and take knowledge and experience. It takes mistakes and trial and error. This is what I’m in the process of now, and what I’m going to try and correct as soon as possible.

“At the same time, have a guy who’s doing an spanking-new job like Charles is with this car. He is driving at a very upper level, he is putting together super-impressive lap times — an impressive way of driving and I can only revere and try in some ways to reprinting and in others try to put it a bit increasingly to my liking to be faster.

“That’s it. Sometimes it goes like this and as a suburbanite you just have to go through a process and rencontre yourself.”

Despite his struggles, Sainz says he feels he can unhook in Monaco, having been tropical to both pole position and victory there last season.

“Monaco, yes I unchangingly finger confident, I unchangingly finger fast virtually there… but you moreover need conviction in the car and a wastefulness that you like virtually Monaco, and until I get there and finger the car and see how the car is behaving there, I cannot tell you exactly what’s going to happen. But I will go into the weekend like always, motivated and thinking like I can win. For sure it’s not going to change.”