Ericsson: Sauber need to be less negative

Marcus Ericsson believes it is time that Sauber stopped being negative going into each race weekend. The team have already managed to impress the paddock with consistent results that have them perceived to be punching above their weight.

The Swede believes that it is time that the team accepts they can score strong results and need to go into every race weekend aiming to extract the maximum rather than manage expectations.

“In Barcelona everyone was saying ‘oh this track shouldn’t suit us’ and within the team, everyone was thinking ‘yeah it’s going to be tough’,” said Ericsson.

“And I said ‘look guys we cannot go into the weekend thinking that, I think we can be here and mix it up’, that was my feeling going to Barcelona.

“Then coming (to Monaco) before the weekend started, we knew this track could be difficult for us but I said we should be in the mix, we’re in the midfield now, we score points on a quite regular basis.

“We need to have that mindset as well as if we have the mindset of ‘oh this will be a difficult track for us’, it doesn’t work like that.

“We need to go into the weekend with confidence that we can be in the fight and that’s how we should go forwards into every weekend.

“I will go into every weekend now and have the aim to score points and get to Q2 and that’s how we need to work as a team I think.”