What exactly is Ferrari's problem?
Does Ferrari simply lack downforce, can other teams adopt Red Bull's front suspension idea, and were pundits too harsh on McLaren pre-season? Our technical expert answers these and other questions, and shares a tale of when Ayrton Senna helped Jordan
It's not just downforce, it's a bit of everything. As Sebastian Vettel says, he still doesn't feel confident in the car so he's reluctant to push it to the limit - and Charles Leclerc paid the price in Baku qualifying for doing just that.
Downforce overpowers most of the other criteria that make up a car's performance, but it needs to be usable downforce. That is really what Vettel is saying: somewhere in the package the Ferrari has something that is creating peaky downforce that means the drivers can't rely on it.
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