Carlos Sainz appeared before the media after his seventh place in the race of Singapore Grand Prix of Formula 1. His accident in qualifying and a difficult start hampered him, but a change of strategy allowed him to overtake several cars and aim to finish the test with good tire management. The Madrid driver assured that he would spend many hours studying the differences between the Ferrari a lap and at race pace during this three-week break until austin.
“The strategy was risky and it was to go to the limit because it made me very slow at the end of the race, but if we wanted to get to the middle of the grid in front of us we had to, we had to do it and in the end we will never know if we would have done the opposite. What is clear is that we finished seventh, which was more or less what the forecast gave us, especially starting on the dirty side, having to avoid a Williams At the start it almost cost us the race at Turn 1 and from there finishing in the points was the goal. “It was a weekend to try to limit the damage,” Sainz began.
“We thought about a safety car, with new soft tyres, it could have done more damage in the end, but that’s how it is. It wasn’t our weekend. “We limited the damage, we made good overtakes, we showed good pace when I had the chance to show it and then at the end in Singapore, it wasn’t going to be easy to start tenth,” he explained.
“It’s clear that this year’s car and myself sometimes struggle in qualifying to find the exact place to put the tyres to do a good lap. Last year it was the car’s strong point, this year it’s the race and in qualifying it’s more difficult. We have to finish discovering it, know why and see how we can improve it by the end of the year,” he said.
“To get out on the wrong side, I didn’t do any harm. I did relatively well. Then on lap 1 I had to be careful with Charles (Leclerc) in front, then a Williams came on the inside, braking very late and taking almost two places from us. Absolutely nothing happened, but when you play the constructors’ championship with the team there, you have to be careful with the cars that have less to lose, because their life is at stake at the start and you, when you play, have a lot of points for the team, you have to be more careful,” he added to the Spanish-speaking media at the circuit. Marine Bay.
Sainz to study Ferrari until arrival in Austin
“The race pace is positive, while the ranking has been our weak point, which I would like to calmly analyse over the last six races and see how we can improve,” he assured. “We have to wait for circuits like Austin to see how the car behaves,” Sainz concluded after the race in Singapore.
