“We have to turn the page and think about the future”

09/05/2020 Sports

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D’artagnan did not take the sword, but put his face on it. After the poor qualifying at the Italian GP, it was Laurent Mekies’ turn to comment on the Ferrari debacle with Charles Leclerc thirteenth and Sebastian Vettel seventeenth.

Those who thought Spa would be an isolated storm were hugely wrong, because the verdict that emerges from qualifying at Monza is even worse, with the two SF1000 tumbling down the straights of the “temple of speed”.

The Cavallino sports director does not look for excuses, but analyzes with cool clarity a dramatic situation that has no equal in the history of the Scuderia on the Stradale …

“It is certainly difficult, we know. The Monza qualification was not a surprise, we knew it would be difficult, after all we had already seen it in Spa and even before ”.

“Our focus is on finding solutions to build a future that allows us to get out of this period. That’s what we think. Today obviously nobody is satisfied with where we are, but the focus is not so much on how it goes, but on how to get out ”.

In Spa it was said that it was a matter linked to the track, since you did not know how to use the tires well, while for Monza there seems to be no particular justification …
Let’s say that our difficulties can also be seen on different tracks. That is why we believe that the time has come to turn the page to focus on the future, to understand how to build a more competitive car in the future ”.

Of course, but there is also a present in which Leclerc is 13th and Vettel 17th. How will you face the race? Is there something you can hold on to?
“The car is what it is and is represented by the position on the grid, but when it comes to Saturday night we look for all possible solutions to make it better: be it a tire management opportunity or a strategy opportunity, we will see it with the drivers and the engineers to do the best they can for the race. Tomorrow we will know if it will lead us to score points. “

Will you focus on race pace and maybe a different tire than the others?
This is the task we will have to focus on in order to hope to do something better than the others in managing the tires with the most appropriate strategy ”.