Sainz: “It has been one of my strongest races at Ferrari”

Carlos Sainz maximized his result in the Formula 1 British GP by finishing 5th behind clearly superior cars in most conditions at a track where the red car suffered all weekend due to its performance in the fast curve. This is how the Madrid native explained his career on the ‘DAZN’ microphone, which highlights his change of pace when it started to rain, where he pressured Verstappen on lap 26, marking the differences in his hands at a time when the track was very delicate.

In addition, he stressed that he was able to reap the fruits of the work done over the weekend to understand when to put the intermediate and dry tires. His approach is very good and it all comes together allowed us to save fifth place and another point for fastest lap which he achieved by stopping at the end to take advantage of the gap he had about Hülkenberg.

With this good strategy there was one but: he didn’t make his last stop a lap earlier, which caused him to lose a place to Piastri. But Carlos made it clear that Oscar had a better car and better tires for that finish, so that pit stop didn’t change his film much.

“What I sincerely believe is that never being faster than the leaders, we have been able to fight that is not ours. And every moment, thanks to Free Practice 1 and Free Practice 2, studying the radar with my engineering and studying the track all the time which tire needs to be used, we were right all the time and that gave us the opportunity to get into positions we probably shouldn’t have.

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“I think we did a very good race overall. Now it’s very difficult in these conditions to be right all the time, but I think we did everything perfectly all the time. Unfortunately, the first 15 laps, as I expected, we didn’t have the rhythm to stay close to the McLarens. I was able to take a chance there and get closer to the leaders, I started to fight a little with Verstappen and then it was raining completely and at the end of the race everything was dry, by.

“But the important thing is that today in the mixed conditions we were fast, we made almost all the pit calls with all the tires and I was able to make fifth better than fifth, especially with the fast lap bonus.”

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“Honestly, today was one of my strongest races at Ferrari that I can remember because of all the pit calls, how we handled the situation on the radio and how I attacked on the difficult track, and then in the championship there also “We have to be there on those weekends when the car is not there. We have been able to score 11 important points for the team because McLaren and Mercedes are very strong from behind and unfortunately they are faster than us.”

HE STOPPED ONE LAP LATER THAN PIASTRI

“The only problem we had was not stopping a lap early to put the dry rubber back on. That’s where we missed the chance to fight with Piastri, but he had a medium tire that was faster than me, which was tough, so I didn’t I didn’t thought we’d beat him.”