Carlos Sainz will have a hard time forgetting lap 44 of the British Grand Prix. At that turn, all his chances of getting a good result at Silverstone were gone after suddenly lose three positions.
The man from Madrid pitted on lap 27 to put hard tires, and just five laps later, Kevin Magnussen’s Haas stopped in the middle of the track after breaking the engine, causing the exit of the safety car.
ANDCarlos was harmed by the safety car, since Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, who were just behind, passed him. The Spaniard asked his engineer if it was possible to stop again to put on soft tires and attack at the end of the race, but from the Ferrari wall they decided not to.
As the race resumed, Sainz was in seventh position, but it did not last long. On lap 44, that is, two laps after the restart, ‘Checo’ Pérez attacked the man from Madrid, who was unable to defend himself against the superiority of Red Bull.
Alex Albóntook advantage of the battle to pass the man from Madrid on the finish straight, and in the first braking, Charles Leclerc launched, passing his teammatethat in just a few meters he had gone from seventh to tenth position.
Carlos Sainz was also attacked and passed by Pierre Gasly, although he managed to turn him around at Copse, the fastest corner on the circuit, to regain tenth position and take the last point on a day to forget.
