Turns out Sainz's car had the same issues as Leclerc's

The first race weekend of the calendar did not go smoothly for Ferrari. Throughout the race, we mainly saw Charles Leclerc's problems. For instance, his tyres often locked up, causing him to run wide. As it turns out, Carlos Sainz suffered from the same problems.

Carlos Sainz suffered from the same problems as Charles Leclerc

Ferrari suffered brake problems during the Bahrain Grand Prix. Despite mainly airing Leclerc's problems, Sainz also suffered a lot. ''Yes, (during) the first stint and the beginning of the second stint. Whenever we were in traffic, we were having a lot of brake vibrations and the pedal at one point started to go long. So it was always a balancing act between do I go for it and try to get rid of the dirty air and overtake people? Or do I start saving my brakes because they're going to fail or something's going to happen? I started saving by moving a bit on the straight to cool the side that it was getting hotter and the vibration started to get better. And then I could start to make moves and move forward. But as I said, the start wasn't great. The brakes were still a bit of a limitation for a bit. Then once everything settled, I could do my pace, do my overtakes and go for the podium'', the Spaniard explained.

The braking problems turned out to be due to overheating of the brakes. Sainz had found a good solution to this during the race, which eventually gave him a podium finish. ''I don't know the level of severity he (Charles Leclerc) had but for me it was one point pretty bad too. It's something that you cannot discover in testing because in testing you never put yourself in 10 laps consecutive behind four cars getting all the hot air from the four cars in front and the brakes never cool down. I tried not to panic. I tried to put the side that was more heated and I took a different line on the straights to cool them down. At one point the pedals started to go quite long and also a lot of brake vibrations which is changes your feeling on the braking quite a lot but yeah I kept it cool managed them and as soon as I got a bit of clean air it cleared and it became a lot better but it's something that we definitely maybe need to take a bit more margin going into an extra race.''