Sainz: “The team did the right thing”

Carlos Sainz started 11th in the Canadian F1 GPjust behind his companion charles leclerc, which started on the 10th. and after that Ferrari made some mistakes in Saturday’s difficult qualifying in the wet, this time the team was bold in its approach and allowed its two cars to save the tools. Leclerc finished 4th and Carlos Sainz 5th. All this, because of a risky decision that turned out to be too good for Ferrari: with the safety car on lap 12, everyone took the opportunity to stop for free except Leclerc and Sainz, who stayed on track looking to extend their first stint on medium rubber and went to a pit stop.

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In this race the degradation is low because of the low temperature, so The question remains whether the Ferrari with more heat will have problems with the tires again. What became clear was that with the car loaded with fuel and unloaded, the car’s performance was good and consistent.something that did not happen in the previous Grand Prix. Is this a result of the developments shown in Barcelona? Maybe. The answer will come in the next appointments. So far, Sainz finished the GP happy with the car’s performance and his speed.

“I’m happy because I’m fast and comfortable today. We also solved some problems he had with the car on Friday and now it is perfect. I am cI’m happy because I ran very well on the medium rubber and then on the hard rubber there wasn’t much I could do because the race was over, but I was very comfortable”commented Carlos Sainz in the statements on ‘DAZN F1’.

Moreover, Carlos also wanted to defend the team for the decision he made not to give Leclerc’s position to Sainz in the race. This happened in the first batch. Leclerc and Sainz decided not to enter the pits and extend that ‘stint’. Sainz has better pace behind Charles and believes he can push further. He radioed this to his engineers but, soon after, the group told Charles that Sainz was not going to attack him. They made a clear decision that Carlos decided to support.

“I think it makes sense too. ANDwe both try to extend the first ‘stin’t to overcut the entire grid and yes It’s true that I was very fast with the medium tire because I treated it well in the first laps and I could have extended that ‘stint’ and I could have run very fast with that tire, but in the end I think what was done the team did the right thing and we finished 4th and 5th, which was the goal”Spanish finished.