The Frenchman from Alpine reproaches the Spanish for pushing him off the track in the middle of the mixed zone, in front of the television cameras
Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out. Some breathing exercises before standing in front of the microphones to calm the nerves and temper the ideas. In Australia he regretted a worse result due to a sanction -twelfth-, but this Sunday in Silverstone, Carlos Sainz He lived his darkest career so far in the World Cup. I finished tenth. With the Ferrari that on Friday he was flying, with the Ferrari that on Saturday placed him fifth on the grid, with that same Ferrari he finished tenth. This time it wasn’t the car’s fault.
“It has harmed me the appearance of the safety carhas conditioned my career”, lamented Sainz and it was true. Haas of Kevin Magnussen it caught fire at the worst moment for the Spaniard, but that was not what delayed him so much. As already happened in Austria, his team made a mistake with the strategy, as they put him on hard tires when there were barely 20 laps left and left him at the mercy of the English track, which, cold, frozen, became a skating rink for him. Before you go through the garage, Sainz was sixth. Then, with the safety car involved, He started seventh and lost to Checo Pérez, Alex Albon and his teammate Charles Leclerc to finish at the limit of those who score.
- Why didn’t they use soft tires, like their rivals?
- it is still our weak point. With the soft tires I don’t know if we would have reached the end. We continue to suffer a lot of degradation and that hurts our technique. It was also bad luck that he started just ahead of Checo. When he overtook me, I stepped on the dirty area and I lost even more grip.
This Sunday’s race confirms the bad year for Ferrari and to Sainz, who last season, in this same setting, celebrated the first victory in Formula 1 of his life. The Spaniard has not yet stepped on the podium this course and leclerc It has only done so a couple of times, which has led the Italian team to fall to fourth place in the Constructors’ World Championship. to fight with max verstappen and the Red Bull a few months ago to battle against the Alpine or the Williams for points, as happened this Sunday.
In fact, Sainz He had an ugly incident in the mixed zone because of that survival at the bottom of the pack. Leaving the garage, the Spaniard met several rivals who had not yet gone through the pits, he had to overcome them and one of them, the Frenchman Pierre GasleyI ended up angry. Sainz’s overtaking was clean, usual, simple, but the Frenchman considered that it had been violent. “Don’t throw me off the track like that,” he reproached Gasly before the television cameras after giving the Spanish a slight push. “Poor thing,” he blurted out and went back to his business with imperturbability. Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out.
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