Carlos Sainz has hit out at the Italian media for weeks of negative coverage about the start of Ferrari’s 2023 campaign. “You have to realise that no one is more upset or angry or unhappy about the situation than everyone here,” said Sainz. Some of the Ferrari criticism is even in-house, with Lapo Elkann hinting on social media that his brother John Elkann is not present enough at Maranello. John Elkann, however, told a Ferrari shareholders’ meeting late last week: “Last year we were able to improve our performance significantly. “Of course we take the fastest car as a reference, but we are constantly looking at the gaps with respect to Ferrari, Mercedes and Alpine.

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