Sainz, if he was the head of Ferrari: “It’s always the same with Charles”

Carlos Sainz He has a series of races in which he is the leader Ferrari on track. Since Charles Leclerc achieved a spectacular success at home, in Monacothe pilot of Principality He suffered more than the Spaniard and it cost him the wheel of Ferrari. There are three Grand Prix in a row in which the Spaniard leads, adding 38 points in total for the 12 he has achieved. Charles. And in Hungarythe Madrid driver again won the classification, once again increasing his performance to an excellent fourth place.

The man from Madrid benefited from the mistakes of Russell and Perezwho crashed in Q1, and won the position in hamilton on track to achieve 4th, the maximum he can achieve with a Ferrari that Carlos highlighted in the Spanish press as needing “a big improvement” soon to be able to reduce the 3 or 4 tenths that separate the him from the poles and the victories.

In that sense, when asked if he becomes the leader of Ferrari On the track despite being the driver who will definitely leave the team at the end of the year, the man from Madrid is very correct and wants to highlight that the equality between him and his colleague is huge.

“It’s always the same with Charles. There are races where he’s ahead and I take it with dignity because I know he’s a very fast driver, but I also have races where I go fast and now I have several accounts driving to a very good degree”he commented to the Spanish press.

“This weekend, all the sessions, all the soft rubber runs I was very fast, so I’m not surprisedbecause it’s always like that with him. There are always streaks or races where he goes faster but I’m faster. The good thing we have is that we are always a tenth or two away from each other and it never occurs to us that we are 4 or 5. And I think that makes us a strong pair of driver.”he added in this regard.

“4th is a very good result and above all, you have to see what can be done today, right? And more than finishing fourth tomorrow, it’s impossible because when you’re in front of them three or four tenths away …II don’t have three or four victims in my pocket to pull out suddenly. “We have already beaten Mercedes, a Red Bull, so we have to be happy and think that tomorrow something will happen in front of us and we can get on the podium.”said the Spaniard.

Need new parts asap

In Spa can it be stricter than the above? Nope. It is little of what there is until we bring good evolution, like McLaren and Red Bull. I don’t know where it’s going yet. At the factory they are working hard, 100% behind it all and helping us with everything possible to make the car 3 or 4 tenths faster than what we need now. But it takes time. Obviously, at the moment, after what we discovered in Barcelona, ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​atingable to go back, analyze, change things, there is limited wind tunnel time… it takes time to design new pieces.”

Fourth is the goal this Sunday

“Staying in fourth place is the goal. Lugo, if I do well I will try to break into the top 3, but in 70 laps, 3 or 4 tenths of a second per lap will take us away… and in the a whole race has more than 20 seconds in front of us, so soon they will overtake you unless they fail like in Austria, the podium is difficult, as always.

Time to the key moment of Q3: before the red flag

“We had a very good qualifying, again with mixed conditions. In Q1 I did a very good lap which helped me for the rest of the session when it started to rain. Then in Q2 I had a good tire strategy, and in The Q3 also since Free Practice 1 he has been doing very well on soft tires, so we should be happy and we should know that today is a good day on a personal and team level, but also worried because we “They keep getting 3 or 4 tenths, which is the same as the last three races.”

He failed on the first lap of Q3 and had to recover

“In the first lap of Q3 I had a problem with the tires and they came out colder than I expected. In the first sector I had two or three difficult moments and it was a very bad lap for that reason, but knowing we’re going to correct it. For the second attempt, we could do 1’15” or 6 and we did it.”