Sebastian Vettel described that his Formula 1 car is "difficult" and a "handful" after Friday's practise session. Charles Leclerc ended practice in ninth, while Vettel was able to manage 12th fastest overall.
Team Ferrari of Formula 1 stated that they are struggling to find a solution for the tyre menace and continue to look for ways to improve the performance of the vehicle before the home race- Italian Grand Prix.
Team Ferrari's driver-Sebastian Vettel stated,"The car is difficult to drive, but like I said, it’s not the first time."
He stated, "Where are we lacking? Down the straights as expected, but in terms of where we want to have a better car to drive, we’re lacking grip on corner entry. Pretty much all four wheels are sliding quite a lot. It's a handful but it's very difficult to get everything right, to get the lap together. But we're trying to make that a bit better for tomorrow."
Vettel believes that the high tyre pressure that was set by Pirelli was a major reason why the team finds it hard to drive the car to its full potential.
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He said, "I think that’s going to be the same for everyone. Part of the contributor for that in the race is the balloon pressure that we are forced to run at. That doesn't help, it's far away from where the tyres would like to run.
"But we have to obviously stick to the rules. Apart from that, it will be a tricky one in the race. We’ll be fighting a lot of cars, we'll be in the pack. It's not like racing at the front in clean air, having a nice car. But that's something to worry on Sunday, for now we worry for tomorrow and hopefully get a better car. The better the car, the better the result will be on Sunday."
Leclerc was happy with Ferrari's qualifying pace but says the pace and use of the tyres need to be improved for the team to advance in the race by scoring points.
"Yeah, I think we expected a bit worse on the low fuel runs, but then on the high fuel, we expected a bit better," Leclerc said.
"So we definitely need to try and find something for the race otherwise it’s going to be very, very difficult. We seem to struggle quite a lot with the balance and the overall degradation of the tyres during the high-fuel run. So there's definitely a lot on that, but quite positive to see our qualifying pace."
