Sainz was vocal about Hamilton’s complaints of Verstappen’s dominance

Max Verstappen It has been dominating with an iron fist and has been unopposed since Red Bull made a big move in mid-2022 that Ferrari has not followed through on. The numbers are scandalous. Max has the season 13 wins out of 16 possible. His teammate ‘Checo’ Pérez added two, and the only non-Red Bull driver to win a race was Carlos Sainz (in Singapore). Days before Max Verstappen took advantage of his first title match ball in Qatar, Carlos Sainz referred to the excellence of energy drinks in a media meeting organized by Estrella Galicia 0.0 in Madrid. there, MD asked if he understood Lewis Hamilton’s repeated complaints in relation to that dominance by Max after the Englishman enjoyed similar dominance from 2014 to 2020 at the wheel of his Mercedes.

“I do not understand”, Carlos Sainz answered directly with a smile. The reason is easy: “If it’s your turn, I don’t understand why you complain later, because it’s already your turn. If someone like me who has no control said it, then you can still complain a little,” responded the man from Madrid to this newspaper. “It is known that in F1, we are all at the level, when you see the ‘rider’ you will see that we are always dependent on the car. But that has been F1 for 30 years and it is no secret,” He stated, emphasizing that the quality of the driver is hidden by the potential of the car he drives and in many cases, from the outside, it is not appreciated. The clear example is in his performance and how much his race winner in Singapore is appreciated and how little other performances are remembered with more cautious results but which he can consider better.

“For example, they asked me if I was at my best level. I was at a high level, but I was at this level at McLaren too. But because I was 7th or 8th there and that’s the kind of race I was doing but no one saw (because there was little focus on the broadcast), I remembered that you called me ‘invisible man’… I had this kind of races, these defenses, overtaking and the way I ran at other times in my career. That’s the bad thing about F1. Whether it’s 7th or 8th… there are some great drivers now on the grid putting tenths that people won’t appreciate until they’re in a better car.”he added in this regard, emphasizing the importance of having the best car to get good results.