Carlos Sainz He was one of the most competitive drivers we played against. Las Vegas Grand Prix. The pilot of Ferrari He benefited from a good pace during the free practice sessions and this showed later reflected in the ranking for this Sunday’s race.
Sainz had everything ready to sign the ‘pole‘. In his possession, he achieved the best time and everything suggested that the Madrid native would end up taking the right to go first in the race. but it appeared George Russell to truncate the plans that the Spanish pilot might have.
Carlos had put in mind in Q3 but the Mercedes driver managed to eliminate him 98 thousandths to take pole position in Las Vegas. Although he is second, Sainz He is the big favorite to win the race with his partner Charles Leclerc given the great competitiveness and speed shown by the Ferraris this weekend.
The Spanish driver analyzed the qualifying and admitted that he had seen it very closely: “It was a complicated classification. I thought that had the post but George arrived very quickly at the end, even though we started in a very good position. We must maintain the confidence that we can fight abovesince if we fought today, tomorrow we can do more“.
“Today Mercedes activated the tires very well, tomorrow it’s a blank slate. We need victories to be able to beat McLaren,” assured Sainz in a statement to ‘Formula 1’ after qualifying.
We shouldn’t forget Ferrari’s big open front end either. Those from Maranello still have the option of opting for the builder title and have a good weekend both Carlos as Leclerc could tighten things up before the final two Grands Prix of the season.
