Ferrari sporting director Laurent Mekies has urged the crew to “chase each hundredth” this season as they appear to bounce again from a troublesome 2020 marketing campaign.
The Scuderia completed sixth within the constructors’ championship final season, choosing up simply three podiums within the course of, however seem to have a extra aggressive automobile this yr.
Within the opening two races of the 2021 Formula 1 season each Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz have claimed consecutive high 10 finishes, with their fourth and 5 place finishes at Imola leaving them fourth within the constructors’ championship.
The team have a stated aim of finishing ahead of McLaren in third this season, and Mekies believes that their robust begin to the yr has offered the crew with an “further enhance”.
“One of the best a part of it’s to see the crew rising, to see the crew having a powerful weekend collectively in Bahrain and Imola,” he mentioned. “If a powerful weekend means a P4 then it’s totally different to a powerful weekend which means a P8.
“It provides all people that further enhance and that’s what now we have to do to get again into the correct mindset and chase each hundredth we are able to all over the place.
“It is necessary that we hold concentrating on ourselves and hold delivering these robust performances. The place these robust performances put us is a distinct story.”