Carlos Sainz wants to get his second F1 win today (3:00 pm/DAZN F1), starting against Czech Perez (2nd) and Alonso (3rd). The man from Madrid and the man from Oviedo signed the best starting grid in Spain in Formula 1. Historic. But as drivers often say, it’s pointless if they both can’t achieve their goal now in the race, when the points are distributed. Your goals should be very different. Sainz picks victory but the Red Bulls are favourites. Y Fernando Alonsoaware of Verstappen (15th) will come back and maybe Leclerc too, he should think about fifth or sixth place and fish for someone else if he messes up in front of him.
Verstappen (sanctioned, starts 15th) he put 0”632 on Carlos to make the pole worth it just for the statistics. A world.
The Dutchman will start early Leclerc (16th). In normal conditions, yesterday Carlos I just smiled. But you can tell by the fly behind his ear. I couldn’t hide it. I knew Max would come.
“A fight between me and Checo? Nope. Especially with Max’s speed. As soon as there’s a safety car that allows him to get close, or even at the speed he has, I think he’ll be able to come back. Will Max win? I think. If I can do that lap I will also have confidence”, said Carlos.
things can change
“We have a deficit with Max’s Red Bull, something that surprised me because we have been fighting for pole all year. I don’t know if it’s the temperature or the efficiency of your car, but they have a pretty significant margin. Despite everything, we executed a good ‘qualy’ as a team (Leclerc gave him a slipstream) and we will try to win”Sainz said in a press conference, clarifying that yesterday he had done something very complicated: beat Pérez’s Red Bull. But in the race it will be difficult.
“It’s hard to hide ‘Checo’ from Red Bull’s top speed. That’s where I’ll be most vulnerable.”
Besides that, there is hope. The temperature is expected to be higher today and that should benefit Ferrari and allow it to warm the tires better. “At race pace we can go well,” he said. He will fight everything, although he knows that Checo will fight, maybe also the two Mercedes, who usually have better pace in the race. And then, ‘the bogeyman’ Max, for whom the question is not if he will come or not, but when.
Zandvoort, next week, an important response
But ferrari, more than the Spa, must think about other things. Cheering for first place on the grid and thinking that everything is fine can be bread for today and hunger for tomorrow. The Italian team knows this and Leclerc made it clear: “I hope that things will change in Zandvoort, but first we have the race”. And it is the biggest fear for Ferrari should not be whether Verstappen wins now or not. It remains to be seen if the power shown at Spa becomes a trend towards the end of the championship, and that will only be known if his supremacy is confirmed next week on a track with a different character like the Dutch GP.
If that is confirmed, it will be the worst news for the Italians ahead of their home date at Monza in two weeks’ time. Red Bull can sweep if yesterday is its true potential for the next tests.
Source: La Verdad
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