Fridays will now be more experimental after pace improvement

The Spaniard was critical of his weekend-long performance in the Bahrain season opener, in which he played rear-gunner to team-mate Charles Leclerc in a Scuderia 1-2.

This came after he gained a place following the late retirement for defending champion Max Verstappen, as both Red Bulls were eliminated by a fuel vacuum issue.

Sainz then said that “I need to improve if I want to fight for a win” in what had been his “most difficult weekend [as a Ferrari driver]” and “it…