Sauber have had a relatively positive start to the season, sitting in ninth place in the constructors’ standings with 11 points. This positive form has led Marcus Ericsson to tell his team to be more confident coming into race weekends.
Sauber have scored points in three of six races this season, with Ericsson finishing ninth in Bahrain.
Team mate Charles Leclerc has been one of the biggest success stories of this F1 season, and he took a very impressive sixth place in Azerbaijan along with a solitary point in Spain.
Despite this, Ericsson says the team are not coming into race weekends believing they will score points.
“In Barcelona everyone was saying ‘oh this track shouldn’t suit us’ and within the team everyone was thinking ‘yeah it’s going to be tough’,” said Ericsson.
“And I said, ‘look guys we cannot go into the weekend thinking that, I think we can be here and mix it up’, that was my feeling going into Barcelona.”
“We need to go into the weekend with confidence that we can be in the fight and that’s how we should go forwards into every weekend.
“I will go into every weekend now and have the aim to score points and get to Q2 and that’s how we need to work as a team I think.”
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