Carlos Sainz honest about 2022 F1 car struggles: 'I'm not there yet with the car'

• Carlos Sainz Jr. admits to struggling with Ferrari's 2022 F1 car, the F1-75.

• Sainz has had several challenging races, but says that he needs to get on top of it, and soon.

• The Spaniard's teammate has had a less challenging time this season so far.

Carlos Sainz admits that he is still struggling with Ferrari's F1-75 and needs to "think outside the box" to improve his performance in the car.

So far this season, Sainz is consistently outpaced by teammate Charles Leclerc, and while fighting to improve his showing, he has often incurred mistakes and off-track excursions.

This past weekend, Sainz qualified third in Barcelona while Leclerc was on pole. But during the race, Sainz lost out to George Russell and Sergio Perez but fought back to claim fourth place, having landed in the gravel trap at one stage.

A knife-edge

The new Ferrari remains a struggle for Sainz, who described the car as being "on a knife-edge in corner entry" all weekend.

"It's giving me a whole new challenge in my Formula 1 career, and I'm having to think outside of the box, drive outside of the box, and with this comes mistakes, it comes learning things that I'm having to learn, and I'm putting my head down to try and fight this and make it turn as soon as possible," Sainz said.

"I think you can see from the cameras and everywhere that I'm not there yet with the car compared to last year, that I'm not driving naturally, the car is a bit too pointy for my liking, but that's it, that's the way it goes. You can either adapt yourself or can either bring your car a bit more to your liking.

"Anyway, these two things, they take time, and they take knowledge and experience, it takes mistakes and trial and error, and this is what I'm in the process now and what I'm