Rarely something like this has been seen Carlos Sainz. Very, very rarely. From perhaps the ‘stop inventing’ The man from Madrid has not been so clear on his radio with Ferrari. Because in Monaco, on the always demanding track from monacoany mistake can be expensive.
And in the ‘Scuderia’, in FerrariThey made one. They did it with him. With his strategy. With a stop that no one understands and even less a Carlos who already had enough with what Esteban Ocon was putting him through. The Frenchman, a turtle compared to him, stopped him and his team were unable to take advantage with its hard tires.
Because the French made his stop. He did it because his average rubber bands weren’t enough for more. But Sainz had other shoes. Some more resistant. Some that would have allowed him, finally, to shoot in clean air and demonstrate his rhythm. But in Ferrari they had other idea.
The idea of stopping The idea of not opening a gap with Ocon to ensure a won position. To secure the podium. There were barely 19 seconds between the two, but Sainz, contrary to what he should have done, entered the pits at the request of Ferrari.
It didn’t go well far from it. Esteban Ocon maintained his position, and also Carlos Sainz loaded the media with half the race to go and with the rain threatening.
“I don’t care about Hamilton!”
His anger was brutal: “This is exactly what I told you!”
And his engineer, to his: “This was to protect us from Hamilton. It is the objective.”
“I don’t care about Hamilton! It was faster!” said Carlos Sainz emphatically, and rightly so.
The man from Madrid was tremendously angry, as he saw how a mistake in strategy put his chances of getting there in great jeopardy to the podium in Monaco.
