The 'huge' Ferrari improvement that has seen Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes sidelined
dailyrecord.co.ukCarlos Sainz has revealed that the secret to Ferrari's strategic improvement this year is simply because they now "have a car that is better on tyres".Sainz made these comments after securing third place at the Japanese Grand Prix, trailing behind Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez, while his Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc came in fourth.
Lewis Hamilton, who is set to replace Sainz at Ferrari next season, finished ninth. This result means that Sainz has outperformed Hamilton in every race so far this season.
Ferrari's strategy in Suzuka was widely commended, with both drivers making significant gains."We've made progress on strategy over the last three years, progressively, but if you see a jump this year on strategy, it's purely down to the car," Sainz clarified. "I think just having a car that allows you to have flexibility on strategy is something that last year we couldn't have, so we were boxed in to stop at certain laps.
We couldn't extend. We had so much degradation that it looked always like people could extend and then come back on us on a harder tyre.", reports the Mirror."Last year, we just [had] zero flexibility and we couldn't do anything without racing, so it looked like we were not getting the strategy right a lot of times.
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