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Carlos Sainz plans to increasingly use his Friday running to experiment with the Ferrari F1-75 in search of a pace boost.

There was very little to choose between Sainz and his Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc in 2021, the pair separated by only 5.5 points in the Spaniard’s favour as Ferrari secured P3 in the Constructors’ Championship.

Ferrari have started 2022 very much as a front-runner, where it has been Leclerc delivering the stellar performances.

The Monegasque driver claimed victory at the season-opener in Bahrain before being narrowly beaten to the line by Max Verstappen at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix after another thrilling scrap between the pair.

Sainz has also had strong results, a P2 in Bahrain and P3 in Saudi Arabia, but already he appears very much at risk of becoming considered the number two driver at Ferrari.

Admittedly not yet feeling fully comfortable with the F1-75, Sainz wants to make gains over one lap and find the couple of tenths he generally has been lacking to his team-mate.

With Sainz explaining his engineers had some “interesting theories” for progress which have not yet delivered, he feels it is time to do his own experimenting on a Friday before qualifying.

“I tried a lot of different things, especially on Friday,” said Sainz following the