Ferrari really dropped all the balls this weekend. Sainz has been in the way of other drivers repeatedly, which falls on his engineer who should let him know when cars are coming. In rainy conditions the drivers can’t see jack nothing in their mirrors and it’s like Sainz was just left to his own devices by his engineer.

Honorable mention for Tsunoda doing his best mobile roadblock impression. Holy heck he was constantly in the way this weekend.

Then there is poor Leclerc. He asked for slicks, and his team overruled him and it caused him to be eliminated in Q2. How much longer can he stomach Ferrari incompetence before he starts putting feelers out for a drive elsewhere? As things are going at the Ferrari strategy desk it’s clear the prancing horse has bolted the barn and his chances of getting a championship is in the low zeros.

    • quintinza@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      I agree re the errors. Key difference is that he has zero buffer against the odd error, because when he gets it right Ferrari goes out of their way to screw it up.

      And 100% on him trying too hard because he has to try salvage a result against the pitwall’s best attempts to snooker him.

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        1 year ago

        Before I read your reply, I had the sentence “Leclerc is clearly overdriving to compensate for Ferrari”.

        You can see it’s eating him up. The Ferrari deeam is not how he imagined at all.

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        1 year ago

        And this reminds me strongly of Vettel’s stint at Ferrari. Just drained the energy out of him.