Carlos Sainz was close to the podium at the Austrian GP. The man from Madrid, quite annoying After the race, knowing that he had enough to finish fourth, he saw how Ferrari made a couple of decisions that are at least questionable for him in a test in which at times, many times, he had more pace than Charles Leclerc.
In one in which he took a 5 second penalty for exceeding the track limits and in which he left a titanic fight with Sergio Pérez, faster than him and with younger wheels. Everything, to help Leclerc to be second. Everything, to put his partner on the podium.
A podium that could have been his, but Ferrari was determined that he did not have the same options as the Monegasque in the Austrian race. Carlos despaired on the radio, and it is not for less after the two decisions that knocked out his career.
The first was at the beginning of the test. Because it had rhythm. A lot of ritm. Much more than Leclerc. Ferrari, who saw how Verstappen was leaving, preferred to leave Charles ahead.
From “don’t attack” to…
“We continue with the plan. Do not attack”, they told him on the radio. And yes, she did not attack. Of having done it…
Perhaps it would have been the first Ferrari to stop in the second of the ‘Scuderia’ decisions. Because they stopped both at the same time, and of course the one who arrives later has the most to lose. He lost a few seconds, and also the positions with Hamilton and Norris.
Tremendous mistake with him, who had to make an effort on the track to finally add that penalty of 5 seconds for the ‘track limits’.
Normal that at the end of the test and getting out of the Ferrari was so indignant… fourth place, seeing his pace, tastes rather little.
