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Formula One F1 – Bahrain Grand Prix – Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain – March 20, 2022 Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc celebrates on the podium after winning the race with second place Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Jr. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
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Formula One F1 – Bahrain Grand Prix – Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain – March 20, 2022 Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc celebrates on the podium after winning the race with second place Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Jr. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
The Italian football team is knocked out of the World Cup qualifiers by North Macedonia in a shocking manner. The underdogs scored a last-minute winner to send the European champions out of the competition and ended their World Cup hopes. So it looks like the Italian fans might have just Ferrari F1 to cheer for in 2022.
The Tifosi took to social media to express their disappointment with the result of the football match. They recognized the irony and mentioned the failure of the Italian team to qualify for the World Cup while Ferrari are leading the championship in Formula One. This is Italy’s second consecutive loss at the World Cup qualifiers. The last time they were part of a World Cup match was in 2014.
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Italy going to shit just as Ferrari become good. pic.twitter.com/IM73cletnK
— 𝙍 𝘼 𝙁 𝘼 𝙀 𝙇 🇮🇹🦉(FA14) (@rafaismo) March 24, 2022
Italy getting not making the World Cup while Ferrari are most likely going to head for a World Championship, what a timeline.
— andrew♤ (@AMcMenemie) March 24, 2022
I cannot believe Italy sacrificed their football team for Ferrari.
— dante 🏎 (@regulareffect) March 24, 2022
Well at least Italy still has Ferrari to cheer for
— Louie Alcantara (@EF4Louie) March 24, 2022
At least Italy has Ferrari back. #WCQ
— MB (@mbandai) March 24, 2022
Italy out?!…Let’s hope Scuderia Ferrari doesn’t disappoint Tifosi 🏎🇮🇹 #ITAMKD
— F1 Phanatic (@F1_Phan) March 24, 2022
Italy failed to qualify for the World Cup for the second time in a row. Let’s hope that Ferrari will be able to offer some joy and bliss to all Italians out there this weekend in Saudi Arabia that their football team failed to offer
— Z (@hashamezzakwan) March 24, 2022
Carlos Sainz reveals his Ferrari engineers have found a way to beat Leclerc
Sainz finished behind this teammate Charles Leclerc at the first race of the season and Bahrain. Charles was ahead of him for the entirety of the weekend and Carlos looked in no position to challenge the 2022 Bahrain GP winner.
As reported by Autosport, he mentioned he has done a full analysis of the problems that he faced in Bahrain. He also mentioned he needs to work a lot on understanding the car better to perform at his maximum.
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“But the fact is that I still need to work on the set-up. I need to work on car understanding. I’ve done my analysis in these three days with my guys and we have a couple of very interesting theories. So we have a couple of very interesting things to try here,” said Carlos.
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Formula One F1 – Bahrain Grand Prix – Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain – March 20, 2022, Second place Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Jr. celebrates on the podium after the race REUTERS/Thairé Al-Sudani
“I don’t think it’s going to be a matter of one race, but a bit like it was last year, little by little, chip away at it and get there. We also need more samples,” added Sainz.
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It would be interesting to see if the Spaniard can close the gap to Charles in Saudi Arabia. He really needs to win his first race in Formula One to make a claim for the world championship this season. Hopefully, he will have a more competitive car this weekend to fight his teammate in the streets of Jeddah.
