Despite podium, Sainz is also dissatisfied: “I never found the rhythm”
Fernando Alonso’s face after leaving the Singapore GP with a broken Alpine engine said it all. The day he once again became the driver with the most Grand Prix races in Formula 1 history, the car let him down. There are a lot of failures and zeros in his locker because of its reliability, and Alonso can’t take it anymore. He still has four races to go as an Alpine driver, but he is no longer holding his tongue. “We lost eight or ten points again, whatever those were. Over the year we lost 50 of them, I think. Now let’s add ten more. Losing 60 points in a championship is unacceptable. I’m very upset about this. I think for my part I performed well during the weekend and everything broke down due to a mechanical failure,” he complained.
It was little consolation to see Esteban Ocon also leaving, even though the relationship with the Frenchman is not quite right (because of the Frenchman). “It is true that in this race the two Alpines have stopped but one finished 13th and had zero points and by staying out of the race he is left with zero so it doesn’t change much. For me, however, almost everything changes this year,” the Spaniard insisted.
“It hurts because our performance this weekend is something to be very proud of. We were fighting between the top five and six places on Saturday and something similar in the race,” he concluded, before starting to think about Japan, one of his favorite countries and Grand Prix. Alonso and Ocon will not be able to fail, if they want Alpine to take advantage. In Singapore, they were overtaken by McLaren in their battle for fourth place.
In the case of Carlos Sainz, the man from Madrid would have signed a race like the one he had in Singapore not too long ago. However, he was somewhat disappointed with what he experienced there, as he had expected much more. “I never found the rhythm in the rain, and then I couldn’t compete with the top two,” he lamented after his eighth podium appearance in 2022.
“I had even more problems with the rear of the car. Ultimately, in these circumstances, if you don’t have that extra confidence, you’ll have to settle for that third place finish. The good thing is I didn’t make any mistakes, I was able to finish the race and I’ve been able to be fast towards the end of the race, when I’ve gained confidence,” said Sainz, who will no longer be in the race. able to become world math champion (until this Sunday he had a minimum option that I logically didn’t expect to be fulfilled).
The best thing for him and for Ferrari is that they have been able to gain a good advantage over Mercedes, with 31 extra points, putting them now with a margin of 66 in the general classification. “A good result for the team in the build-up to the Constructors’ Championship, but a shame not to take the win,” he admitted of Charles Leclerc’s late end in his battle against Sergio Perez.
Source: La Verdad
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