Are Ferrari struggling because of their latest upgrades? Sainz answers

"I think it's a combination of we are not creating high speed corners and at the same time we are bouncing which makes our high speed exaggeratedly slow. So here Turn 7, Turn 9 we get a test from Max in each of the corners and in the corner, it is very difficult to crawl that back the rest of the track, because we are almost equal in the slow speed," Sainz explained where Max Verstappen and Red Bull have an advantage over them to GPblog among others. "That's what it is but we are working already back at home to try and understand the package and the bouncing that we have with it and how we can do it for ourselves."

Sainz added: "It could be [because of the new package]." However, the Spaniard thinks the team should not completely get rid of these upgrades. "I think we see it working on the places where we have no high speed. We have a lot of problems with bouncing, but then if you trigger bouncing with high speed, then you have to back off and then what you win in some places you lose in the other. Not ideal, but as I said the team is pushing flat out back at home to try and solve the issue and see how we can come back stronger."

What happened to Ferrari since Monaco?

Since Ferrari's lates package was introduced, the Italian's only had a mostly positive weekend in Monaco, where Charles Leclerc won and Sainz finished in P3. "I think Monaco has always been an outlier. I was coming from tough weekends in Suzuka and China and I knew that in this high downforce, long corner tracks, basically normal track, but we are still not at the level that we want to be, and not at the level of Red Bull and McLaren. On top of that you add the fact that Mercedes has done a very good step and suddenly it looks like it's a tricky situation."

"But we've done our steps, we've improved the car, it's just that the others are improving them very well also and it's obviously a tight race at the top," the three-time Grand Prix winner concluded.