“Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong,” says the man from Madrid, who lost three positions after a five-second penalty.
The calamities in Zandvoort left the Ferrari family with a very bad face, which arrived with options for victory and left with an insipid podium of charles leclerc. Sunday was especially painful for Carlos Sainzvictim of two errors in the pit stops which relegated him to eighth place. “Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong,” admitted the man from Madrid, with bad feelings behind the wheel of the F1-75.
“I’m not worried, but I didn’t like how the race went,” said Sainz shortly after getting out of the car. With his usual honesty, Madrid reviewed each of the setbacks that made him lose any option in Zandvoort. “We had bad rhythm with the soft tires, the stop was bad and then I had that problem with the yellow flags,” he listed.
Indeed, Sainz could not balance the times during his first relay unlike Leclerc, relatively close to Max Verstappen. And when he first entered the pits, to mount the medium compound, his few options were ruined by the chaotic intervention of the mechanics.
“We called you at the last minute”
“The confusion was due to us calling you at the last minute,” conceded Mattia Binotto, boss of Ferrari. A month after the Hungaroring disasters, the team He let 12.7 seconds slip by not having Sainz’s left rear wheel ready. In addition, the mechanic in charge of going to look for it left the pistol on the way, which was left in the middle of the passage of sergio prez. The stewards noted the incident, although Sainz was not sanctioned.
The next problem for Carlos came on lap 55, when the Alfa Romeo of Valtteri Bottas hindered the passage to the end of the straight. Under that yellow flag regime, Sainz risked too much with an overtaking on Stephen Ocon and he even asked his track engineer if he should return the position.
When finally the direction of the race decreed the entry of the safety carSainz would suffer another setback in the pit lane. “I had to brake so as not to take a McLaren mechanic, who had the cat on,” he detailed about his hasty exit from the studs that almost caused a collision with Fernando Alonso. On this occasion, the stewards were not so benevolent and decided on five seconds of punishment. This punishment made him lose his position against Alonso, sergio prez Y lando norris.
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